From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 28 Apr 2009 10:30:48 +0200 > 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. Agreed, can you update your patch to provide such a 'type' tag? Thanks! -- 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
