From: linmiaohe <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
To: David Ahern <dsa@cumulusnetworks.com>, <shrijeet@gmail.com>,
<davem@davemloft.net>, <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Mingfangsen <mingfangsen@huawei.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: vrf: Fix operation not supported when set vrf mac
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2019 15:17:02 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ec3b7b7-61f4-be9b-ab52-3f046d44c440@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e758e1a7-c086-1200-d24b-349f79c2ccfe@cumulusnetworks.com>
On 2019/4/20 22:42, David Ahern wrote:
> On 4/19/19 10:09 PM, linmiaohe wrote:
>> From: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@huawei.com>
>>
>> Vrf device is not able to change mac address now because lack of
>> ndo_set_mac_address. Complete this in case some apps need to do
>> this.
>>
>
> mac on a VRF device is irrelevant so what is the point of allowing apps
> to change it?
>
>
Sure, mac on a VRF device is irrelevant. There is no point of allowing
apps to change it, but someone around complains about it. So let's just
ignore the voice of the complaining.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-04-21 7:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-04-20 4:09 linmiaohe
2019-04-20 14:42 ` David Ahern
2019-04-21 7:17 ` linmiaohe [this message]
2019-04-24 18:45 ` David Miller
2019-04-25 1:41 ` linmiaohe
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