From: Narender Kumar Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:08:57 +0000 (+0000) Subject: netxen : fix BOND_MODE_TLB/ALB mode. X-Git-Tag: v2.6.32~30^2~12 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5d09e534bbb94e1fdc8e4783ac822bc172465a91;p=pandora-kernel.git netxen : fix BOND_MODE_TLB/ALB mode. o Along with netdev->perm_addr, mac address will be maintained in device private structure. o Device limitation: We need to set mac address when ever interface comes up. In ALB/TAL mode, bonding driver calls set_mac for all slave with bond mac address. But bonding driver set netdev->dev_addr field to its original value, after enslaving interfaces. When ever active slave changes, it swap dev_addr of inactive slave with active. Yet it doesn't notify driver about change in netdev->dev_addr. As netxen driver need to set mac addr when ever interface comes up, it can't rely on netdev->dev_addr field. Specially in case of bonding mode ALB/TLB. Signed-off-by: Narender Kumar Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-diff-tree failed