Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:02:33AM CEST, xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx wrote: >On 08/13/2012 11:27 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote: >>This lists are supposed to serve for storing pointers to all upper devices. >>Eventually it will replace dev->master pointer which is used for >>bonding, bridge, team but it cannot be used for vlan, macvlan where >>there might be multiple "masters" present. >> >>New upper device list resolves this limitation. Also, the information >>stored in lists is used for preventing looping setups like >>"bond->somethingelse->samebond" > >Hi, Jiri, > >I have some difficulty to understand this patch description, so take >bridged bonding as an example, IIUC, both the bridge dev and bonding >dev will be in the upper dev list of eth0 and eth1? And br0 will be >in the upper dev list of bond0 too? No. Only direct upper device is in the list. > >I think it would be nice to describe the hierarchy after your patches. Hierarchy is the same after. > >Thanks! >
