On Wed, 19 Feb 2014 09:02:06 -0800 "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Folks, what if I repurpose my patch to use the IFF_BRIDGE_NON_ROOT (or > relabel to IFF_ROOT_BLOCK_DEF) flag for a default driver preference > upon initialization so that root block will be used once the device > gets added to a bridge. The purpose would be to avoid drivers from > using the high MAC address hack, streamline to use a random MAC > address thereby avoiding the possible duplicate address situation for > IPv6. In the STP use case for these interfaces we'd just require > userspace to unset the root block. I'd consider the STP use case the > most odd of all. The caveat to this approach is 3.8 would be needed > (or its the root block patches cherry picked) for base kernels older > than 3.8. > > Stephen? > > Luis Don't add IFF_ flags that adds yet another API hook into bridge. Please only use the netlink/sysfs flags fields that already exist for new features. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
