From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andrei Warkentin Subject: Re: [PATCHv4] Bridge: Always send NETDEV_CHANGEADDR up on br MAC change. Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2011 00:12:45 -0500 Message-ID: References: <1312578250-2944-2-git-send-email-andreiw@motorola.com> <20110808131230.7f4b4d99@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Stephen Hemminger Return-path: Received: from exprod5og108.obsmtp.com ([64.18.0.186]:34317 "EHLO exprod5og108.obsmtp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750695Ab1HIFMs convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 Aug 2011 01:12:48 -0400 Received: from DE01MGRG01.AM.MOT-MOBILITY.COM ([10.22.94.168]) by DE01MGRG01.AM.MOT-MOBILITY.COM (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p795DWSa020725 for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 01:13:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-ww0-f46.google.com (mail-ww0-f46.google.com [74.125.82.46]) by DE01MGRG01.AM.MOT-MOBILITY.COM (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p795BA6g020274 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128 verify=OK) for ; Tue, 9 Aug 2011 01:13:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-ww0-f46.google.com with SMTP id 27so2841049wwf.3 for ; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 22:12:45 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20110808131230.7f4b4d99@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 3:12 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Fri, =A05 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_i= f >> case and the port MAC change case. >> >> Cc: Stephen Hemminger >> Signed-off-by: Andrei Warkentin > > Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger > Thank you for the Ack. A