netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3] macvlan: fix the problem when mac address changes for passthru mode

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Message-Id: <20140602.155751.10391105293526523.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 02 Jun 2014 15:57:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dingtianhong@...wei.com
Cc:	kaber@...sh.net, vyasevic@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] macvlan: fix the problem when mac address
 changes for passthru mode

From: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2014 14:32:49 +0800

> The macvlan dev should always have the same mac address like lowerdev
> when in the passthru mode, change the mac address alone will break the
> work mechanism, so when the lowerdev or macvlan mac address changes,
> we should propagate the changes to another dev.
> 
> v1->v2: Allow macvlan dev to change mac address for passthru mode and propagate to
> 	lowerdev.
> 
> v2->v3: Don't set the mac address to the lower dev's unicast address for
> 	passthru mode when mac address changes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>

Applied, thanks.
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