Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 07:20:03AM CET, davem@davemloft.net wrote:

From: Jiri Pirko <redacted>
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:11:28 +0100

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I can see two solutions. Either like my patch or somehow allow bridge to know
more MAC addressses per port (maybe netdev can be changed to know more then
one MAC address).

Any thoughts?

The netdev struct already supports having a list of multiple unicast
MAC addresses, it can probably be used and inspected for this.

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.

Eventually in the furute we would use this list as a primary place to store
device address instead of dev_addr value and make it more general (as device
generally may have more adresses). Just a thought...

I'll hold off on your patch until we make some more progress on
this discussion.