On Fri, 08 May 2009 16:25:55 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Fri, 8 May 2009 16:12:04 -0700 > > > But the other infrastructure may have same issues (netfilter, etc). > > Just seems like it would be either to have multiple network devices > > so that upper layers could disambiguate easier. > > That's quite a heavyweight solution to what is purely > an addressing issue, don't you think? > > We can just revert all of that netdev_ops stuff if you > think per-netdev cost doesn't matter :-) I am just concerned that is a fundamental change (like MQ) was and it will take a couple of releases to shake out all the inter-relationships. When an architectural change is made, would like to see more analysis done. Netdev-ops was more of a refactoring than a change to what protocols and qdisc/filters/... see. -- _______________________________________________ Bridge mailing list Bridge@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bridge
