Jeff Garzik wrote: > Patrick McHardy wrote: > >> While adding support for secondary unicast addresses to 8021q and >> macvlan, I've tried keeping dev->dev_addr as global address on >> dev->uc_list and have drivers skip them to avoid having all >> dev_unicast_add users implement a state machine like this: > > > [...] > > Something that is not entirely clear to me... This has zero impact on > existing drivers, right?
Yes, since the set_rx_mode hook is new anyway this would only affect drivers offering it (which is none so far). But this idea turned not to be so good anyways, without the set_mac_address callback the driver can't validate the new address. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
