Re: [PATCH] net: introduce a list of device addressesdev_addr_list (v6)

From: David Miller
Date: Tue May 05 2009 - 15:27:41 EST


From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 14:48:28 +0200

> This patch introduces a new list in struct net_device and brings a set of
> functions to handle the work with device address list. The list is a replacement
> for the original dev_addr field and because in some situations there is need to
> carry several device addresses with the net device. To be backward compatible,
> dev_addr is made to point to the first member of the list so original drivers
> sees no difference.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@xxxxxxxxxx>

Applied to net-next-2.6, thanks!
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