netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] bonding: remove alb_set_mac

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Message-ID: <20140522145724.GA1995@mikrodark.usersys.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 May 2014 16:57:24 +0200
From:	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com>
To:	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@...il.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>,
	Eyal Perry <eyalpe@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] bonding: remove alb_set_mac_address()

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 05:36:19PM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
>On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 4:12 PM, Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@...il.com> wrote:
>>
>> Currently it's called only from bond_alb_set_mac_address(), which is called
>> only for ALB mode, and it does nothing in case the mode is ALB. So,
>> basically, it's a no-op. All the needed functionality (modifying the active
>> slave's mac address, per example) is handled by the
>> bond_alb_set_mac_address() itself.
>
>So with this patch @ hand, no more touching of the underlying device
>dev_addr field directly -- or we still have more accesses of this
>such, e.g in  bond_alb_set_mac_address() and/or friends?

Sorry, but no :(. I'm still working on it, and already sent several
patchsets approaching it :).

Hopefully it will be ready next week. If you need it urgently - patches
welcome :).

>
>Or.
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