netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] 8021q: validate SAN MAC address

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Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2012 15:40:29 -0800
From:	"Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
To:	"David Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] 8021q: validate SAN MAC address

On Tue, 2012-11-13 at 18:16 -0500, David Miller wrote: 
> From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@...adcom.com>
> Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 14:29:48 -0800
> 
> > We need to have VLAN tags inserted to packets using that interface.
> > The VID is dynamically discovered by application.  How do suggest we
> > do that if we don't use 8021q?
> 
> Ok.  So what's the reason that the VLAN device isn't given a
> valid MAC address, for example why not use the SAN one?
> 

The VLAN netdev automatically gets the MAC address from the real
netdev->dev_addr.  In this case, the real netdev does not have a valid
dev_addr because the PCI function is a SAN device.  The SAN MAC is in a
different hw address list in netdev->dev_addrs.

I suppose we can just put the SAN MAC into the real netdev->dev_addr so
that the VLAN will automatically get it.  But this doesn't seem very
nice as we would be pretending to have a normal MAC address (for
networking) in this SAN device.  The networking MAC address is in a
different PCI function.

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