From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCHv4] Bridge: Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up on br MAC change. Date: Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:45:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20110809.214501.695156031507081645.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1312578250-2944-2-git-send-email-andreiw@motorola.com> <20110808131230.7f4b4d99@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: andreiw@motorola.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: shemminger@vyatta.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:33400 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750850Ab1HJEpL (ORCPT ); Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:45:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110808131230.7f4b4d99@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Stephen Hemminger Date: Mon, 8 Aug 2011 13:12:30 -0700 > On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 16:04:10 -0500 > Andrei Warkentin 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 >> Signed-off-by: Andrei Warkentin > > Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger Applied, thanks.