netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: mark packets sent to any local mac address as PACKET

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Date:	Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:19:48 +0200
From:	Maxime Bizon <mbizon@...ebox.fr>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	stephen@...workplumber.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: mark packets sent to any local mac address as
 PACKET_HOST


On Thursday 26 Jun 2014 à 13:35:50 (-0700), David Miller wrote:

> > for some reasons, hostapd kept adding and removing the interface from
> > the bridge, triggering a mac address of the bridge change each time (I
> > did not notice that).
> 
> I think this is what you need to investigate rather than making
> changes to the bridge layer.

Of course I fixed the problem with hostapd, I was just explaining how
I noticed that behaviour in the bridge code.

If that behaviour is intended then just forget that patch.

-- 
Maxime
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