[PATCH v2 2/2] Add master support to rtnl_neigh for AF_BRIDGE objects

Roopa Prabhu roopa at cumulusnetworks.com
Thu Nov 15 13:45:34 EST 2012


On 11/15/12 10:41 AM, Thomas Graf wrote:
> On 11/15/12 at 07:08am, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
>> yes, the thought there was things will still continue to work with
>> just lladdr and family because lladdrs are usually unique in an
>> environment.
>>
>> I understand the concern, and thats why I had called this out
>> explicitly in a separate patch. I have looked at adding bridge index
>> in the kernel msg, and since the bridge driver uses the neighbour
>> attributes, adding the master index there seemed out of place.
>>
>>
>> Can this be documented ?. or made explicit some other way..maybe a
>> check during cache_manager add for AF_BRIDGE. ?
>
> OK, good enough. I'll merge this as-is.
>
> Let's solve the cache dependencies problem separately. So far
> all depdenencies have been optional and were only used for
> pretty printing.
>
> The current cache provisioning does not work well in a threaded
> environment so this needs a do over anyway.

sounds good. Thanks



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