netdev - Re: bonding directly changes underlying device address

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Date:	Tue, 13 May 2014 13:55:27 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@...lanox.com>
Cc:	Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>,
	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>,
	Eyal Perry <eyalpe@...lanox.com>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Noa Osherovich <noaos@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: bonding directly changes underlying device address

Tue, May 13, 2014 at 01:06:56PM CEST, ogerlitz@...lanox.com wrote:
>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 believe that is a bug. dev_addr change should be always done using
dev_set_mac_address.

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