netdev - bonding directly changes underlying device address

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Message-ID: <5371FCD0.7050502@mellanox.com>
Date:	Tue, 13 May 2014 14:06:56 +0300
From:	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
To:	Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>,
	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>
CC:	Eyal Perry <eyalpe@...lanox.com>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Noa Osherovich <noaos@...lanox.com>
Subject: bonding directly changes underlying device address

Hi Jay, Veaceslav

I see  now that alb_set_slave_mac_addr directly changes the underlying 
device mac address without calling dev_set_mac_address when running in 
TLB mode. Is that on purpose? if yes, can you explain why?

I suspect this can lead to funny (or actually sad) bugs in networking 
drivers, can we avoid that?

Or.
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