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. _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
