Re: [RFC PATCH v0 1/2] net: bridge: propagate FDB table into hardware

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:25:56AM -0800, John Fastabend wrote:

Agreed. I think adding some ndo_ops for bridging offloads here would
work. For example the DSA infrastructure and/or macvlan devices might
need this. Along the lines of extending this RFC,

[RFC] hardware bridging support for DSA switches
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/16578/


.John

One place where this might not work well would be
macvtap which is not a network device so it doesn't have
its own address, instead it inherits one from macvlan.

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