netdev - Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] Add suppport for sync of hw addresses to multiple devices.

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Message-Id: <20130415.161248.1709223661580314155.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 15 Apr 2013 16:12:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vyasevic@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 0/2] Add suppport for sync of hw addresses to
 multiple devices.

From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:54:24 -0400

> Current dev_[uc|mc]_addr_sync() API currently correctly syncs the
> addresses to the first device.  Any subsequent calls to sync will
> not do anything since the synched variable will be set.  This
> variable is used as an optimization to skip over addresses that have
> been synched.
> 
> There are some devices (ex: team) that attempt to do the above.  There
> is other work in progress that needs to above to work corretly.
> 
> The short series introduces dev_[uc|mc]_addr_synch_multiple() that
> allows multiple calls to sync to multiple different devices.  Original
> API is left alone and still has the limitation.

Looks good, applied to net-next, thanks!
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