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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemming@brocade.com>
To: Patrick Ruddy <pruddy@Brocade.com>
Cc: "jiri@resnulli.us" <jiri@resnulli.us>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Stapleton <dstaplet@Brocade.com>,
	"Olufemi Komolafe" <okomolaf@Brocade.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Netlink messages for multicast HW addr programming
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2016 10:41:11 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160204104111.0c21ab2f@samsung9> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1454508881.3700.63.camel@brocade.com>

On Wed, 3 Feb 2016 06:14:41 -0800
Patrick Ruddy <pruddy@Brocade.com> wrote:

> One more Q on this. I can use IFA_ADDRESS for unicast addresses and
> IFA_MULTICAST for multicast addresses but are these distinctions
> actually required since the multicast nature of an address is clear from
> the address itself - at least it is for ethernet and ifininet?

The flags on L2 addresses should be analagous to what happens with L3 (IP) addresses.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-02-03 23:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-21 11:47 [PATCH] Netlink messages for multicast HW addr programming Patrick Ruddy
2016-01-21 20:04 ` Jiri Pirko
2016-01-22 14:51   ` Patrick Ruddy
2016-01-22 15:05     ` Jiri Pirko
2016-01-22 15:49       ` Patrick Ruddy
2016-01-23  7:53         ` Jiri Pirko
2016-02-03 14:14           ` Patrick Ruddy
2016-02-03 14:22             ` Jiri Pirko
2016-02-03 23:41             ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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