Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 03:48:54AM CEST, davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: >From: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@xxxxxxxxx> >Date: Mon, 27 Apr 2009 15:28:00 -0700 > >> Ignoring the issue of intended use for the moment, if an ethernet driver >> wanted to advertise several MAC addresses to the system how should it go >> about that? > >Now that's a more interesting question. > >It seems better to formalize this. It can be an ethtool >callback or whatever, but what it should do is return >an array of addresses, types, and perhaps even indexes >with types. Well the list of device addresses from my patch can pretty much solve this. There can be additional field in struct netdev_hw_addr to store flags to identify the mac address type (like primary, lan, san, slave, etc). I think it would be better to do this in general (in struct net_device) then inside each driver exported by ethtool or whatever. > >So you could return LAN1, LAN2, LAN3, and SAN1. >-- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in >the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
