Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758758AbZDOJVx (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:21:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752971AbZDOJVl (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:21:41 -0400 Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:49149 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752730AbZDOJVl (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Apr 2009 05:21:41 -0400 Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 02:21:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <20090415.022131.157811430.davem@davemloft.net> To: jpirko@redhat.com Cc: lizf@cn.fujitsu.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jgarzik@pobox.com, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, fubar@us.ibm.com, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, kaber@trash.net, mschmidt@redhat.com, dada1@cosmosbay.com, ivecera@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] net: introduce a list of device addresses dev_addr_list From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <20090415083223.GF21342@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> References: <20090415081819.GB21342@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> <49E59A1C.9030108@cn.fujitsu.com> <20090415083223.GF21342@psychotron.englab.brq.redhat.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.2.51 on Emacs 22.1 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1258 Lines: 28 From: Jiri Pirko Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:32:24 +0200 > This patch introduces a new list in struct net_device and brings a set of > functions to handle the work with device address list. The list is a replacement > for the original dev_addr field and because in some situations there is need to > carry several device addresses with the net device. To be backward compatible, > dev_addr is made to point to the first member of the list so original drivers > sees no difference. > > Note: patch adding list_first_entry_rcu (currently in Ingo's tip tree) needed. > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko Jiri, please add some distinguishing text to your subject lines when you post fixed up version of patches. Like "v2" or something like that, and make a note under the commit message of the changes you've made from the previous version. Otherwise I think it's a dup (because I get a thousand copies anyways) and will just delete it both in my inbox and on patchwork. Thanks. -- 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/