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SubjectRe: [patch net-next 01/16] net: introduce upper device lists
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?

I think it would be nice to describe the hierarchy after your patches.

Thanks!



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