Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v0 1/2] net: bridge: propagate FDB table into hardware

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2012 16:14:14 +0200

On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:25:56AM -0800, John Fastabend wrote:
> Agreed. I think adding some ndo_ops for bridging offloads here would
> work. For example the DSA infrastructure and/or macvlan devices might
> need this. Along the lines of extending this RFC,
> 
> [RFC] hardware bridging support for DSA switches
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/16578/
> 
> 
> .John

One place where this might not work well would be
macvtap which is not a network device so it doesn't have
its own address, instead it inherits one from macvlan.

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