From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 19:38:16 +0200 (MEST)

> [VLAN]: Fix MAC address handling
> 
> The VLAN MAC address handling is broken in multiple ways. When the address
> differs when setting it, the real device is put in promiscous mode twice,
> but never taken out again. Additionally it doesn't resync when the real
> device's address is changed and needlessly puts it in promiscous mode when
> the vlan device is still down.
> 
> Fix by moving address handling to vlan_dev_open/vlan_dev_stop and properly
> deal with address changes in the device notifier. Also switch to
> dev_unicast_add (which needs the exact same handling).
> 
> Since the set_mac_address handler is identical to the generic ethernet one
> with these changes, kill it and use ether_setup().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Applied, thanks.
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