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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@vyatta.com
Cc: andreiw@motorola.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv4] Bridge: Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up on br MAC change.
Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:45:01 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110809.214501.695156031507081645.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110808131230.7f4b4d99@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net>

From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 13:12:30 -0700

> On Fri,  5 Aug 2011 16:04:10 -0500
> Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@motorola.com> wrote:
> 
>> This ensures the neighbor entries associated with the bridge
>> dev are flushed, also invalidating the associated cached L2 headers.
>> 
>> This means we br_add_if/br_del_if ports to implement hand-over and
>> not wind up with bridge packets going out with stale MAC.
>> 
>> This means we can also change MAC of port device and also not wind
>> up with bridge packets going out with stale MAC.
>> 
>> This builds on Stephen Hemminger's patch, also handling the br_del_if
>> case and the port MAC change case.
>> 
>> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrei Warkentin <andreiw@motorola.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

Applied, thanks.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-08-10  4:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-05  1:55 Fix bridge MAC change notification Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-05  1:55 ` [PATCH] Bridge: Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up on br MAC change Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-05  2:11 ` Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-05  2:11 ` [PATCHv2] Bridge: Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up on br MAC change Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-05  2:17 ` Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-05  2:17 ` [PATCHv3] Bridge: Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up on br MAC change Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-05  4:36   ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-05  6:13     ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-05 21:04       ` Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-05 21:04       ` [PATCHv4] Bridge: Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up on br MAC change Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-08 20:12         ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-08-09  5:12           ` Andrei Warkentin
2011-08-10  4:45           ` David Miller [this message]

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