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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: James Prestwood <prestwoj@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/1] net: move IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE to public flag
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2022 10:59:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220804105917.79aaf6e9@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220804174307.448527-2-prestwoj@gmail.com>

On Thu,  4 Aug 2022 10:43:07 -0700
James Prestwood <prestwoj@gmail.com> wrote:

> + * @IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE: device supports hardware address
> + *	change when it's running. Volatile

Since this is a property of the device driver, why is it volatile?

When you make it part of uapi, you also want to restrict userspace
from changing the value via sysfs?


  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-04 17:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-04 17:43 [RFC 0/1] Move IFF_LIVE_ADDR_CHANGE to public flag James Prestwood
2022-08-04 17:43 ` [RFC 1/1] net: move " James Prestwood
2022-08-04 17:59   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2022-08-04 19:29     ` James Prestwood
2022-08-04 18:43   ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-08-04 19:23     ` James Prestwood
2022-08-04 19:49       ` James Prestwood
2022-08-09 19:04         ` Johannes Berg
2022-08-10 16:26           ` James Prestwood
2022-08-10 17:17             ` Johannes Berg
2022-08-10 17:36               ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-08-10 19:35               ` James Prestwood
2022-08-04 20:49 ` [RFC 0/1] Move " Andrew Lunn

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