Re: [PATCH] bonding: allow bond in mode balance-alb to work properlyin bridge -try4

[Patrick McHardy]

Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 02:47:59PM CEST, kaber@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > Jiri Pirko wrote:
> > > Currently I'm thinking the way. What I have on mind:
> > > I would like to add a list into struct net_device to contain all mac addresses
> > > of the device. I would also like to use similar interface to handle them as
> > > currently is for uc_list and mc_list. However I do not like that these lists are
> > > not using standard list_head but they are propriate lists only for this purpose.
> > > I'm thinking about converting them to use list_head first. Or maybe ignore them
> > > and do the new list for macs in parallel?
> > Using list_heads in the address lists would require some pretty large
> > amount of work since you'd need to convert all the drivers. 
>
> Yes, I'm aware of it...
> > I'm all
> > in favour of doing this, but I wouldn't make the fix depend on that
> > work.
>
> ok so you are suggesting to use the current list struct?

Whatever will make this easier :) You could of course already add the
new structure and use it for your new list and do the conversion of
the existing structures on top of that.
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