Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755486AbZCSLVU (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:21:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753112AbZCSLVC (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:21:02 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:54144 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752338AbZCSLVA (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Mar 2009 07:21:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 12:19:28 +0100 From: Jiri Pirko To: David Miller Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, fubar@us.ibm.com, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properly in bridge Message-ID: <20090319111927.GD4123@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> References: <20090316111127.GB3484@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> <20090318.232003.30974750.davem@davemloft.net> <20090319084444.GA4123@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> <20090319.032143.08849045.davem@davemloft.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090319.032143.08849045.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1105 Lines: 23 Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 11:21:43AM CET, davem@davemloft.net wrote: >From: Jiri Pirko >Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 09:44:45 +0100 > >> Yes I was looking at this thing yesterday (uc_list). But this list serves >> to different purpose. Do you think that it will be correct to use it for this? I >> would maybe like to make a new list similar to this for our purpose >> (say addr_list). I think it would be more correct. > >Whatever you do with that list privately inside of the bonding >driver should be fine. Well I do not need it only inside the bonding driver. I want bridge to use this list when adding a device in it and get mac addresses from there into its hashlist (to recognize these addresses as local). > >It might upset something in the generic code if you don't clean >it up before deregistration of the bonding device, so just be >tidy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/