Re: [RFC PATCH net-next 2/5] net: 8021q: vlan_dev: add vid tag for uc and mc address lists

[Ivan Khoronzhuk]

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?



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> Florian

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Regards,
Ivan Khoronzhuk