Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 5 Dec 2018 02:04:51 +0200 | From | Ivan Khoronzhuk <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 2/5] net: 8021q: vlan_dev: add vid tag for uc and mc address lists |
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On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 11:49:27AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
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>> >> I was thinking also about pinned list of vlans to the address, but in >> this case this information also has to be synced by members of device >> chain, >> because it can be modified on any device level and it looks not very >> friendly, >> and at the end address space has addresses with pinned lists of vlans with >> their pointers. But keeping this stuff in sync is not simplest decision. >> >> > >I really think we are not communicating properly, it really seems to me >that if you had the information about the upper device trying to add an >address to the lower device filter's either through notification or call >to ndo_set_rxmode, you could be solving your problems. What are we >missing here?
Sry, missed this one. The problem in getting the owner of address. Just simple case: vlan/macvlan/real_dev or vlan/.../.../real_dev
The real dev hasn't simple way to get vid the address belong to, or it has?
>-- >Florian
-- Regards, Ivan Khoronzhuk
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