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Sridhar Samudrala eb06acdc85 macvlan: Introduce 'passthru' mode to takeover the underlying device
With the current default 'vepa' mode, a KVM guest using virtio with
macvtap backend has the following limitations.
- cannot change/add a mac address on the guest virtio-net
- cannot create a vlan device on the guest virtio-net
- cannot enable promiscuous mode on guest virtio-net

To address these limitations, this patch introduces a new mode called
'passthru' when creating a macvlan device which allows takeover of the
underlying device and passing it to a guest using virtio with macvtap
backend.

Only one macvlan device is allowed in passthru mode and it inherits
the mac address from the underlying device and sets it in promiscuous
mode to receive and forward all the packets.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>

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Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-22 08:24:29 -08:00
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acpi Merge branch 'misc' into release 2010-10-26 14:51:00 -04:00
asm-generic asm-generic/stat.h: support 64-bit file time_t for stat() 2010-11-01 15:31:29 -04:00
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drm drm/ttm: Be consistent on ttm_bo_init() failures 2010-11-10 11:52:19 +10:00
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linux macvlan: Introduce 'passthru' mode to takeover the underlying device 2010-11-22 08:24:29 -08:00
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pcmcia pcmcia: IOCARD is also required for using IRQs 2010-10-22 08:46:36 +02:00
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