From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: rask@sygehus.dk
Cc: linux-net@vger.kernel.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Is a driver allowed to modify dev->flags?
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2003 08:58:06 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E89C51E.1060700@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e89c32348ce76.94538914@not right>
Rask Ingemann Lambertsen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Is a network device driver allowed to modify dev->flags? For example:
>
> if (dev->flags & IFF_ALLMULTI)
> dev->flags |= IFF_PROMISC;
>
> I've found it to cause the IFF_PROMISC flag to stick when using "tcpdump -p", which to my surprice sets the IFF_ALLMULTI flag.
>
> Regards,
> Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
>
>
You are supposed to increment the promisc requestors. I think something like this:
dev_set_promiscuity(dev, 1);
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next parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-01 16:58 UTC|newest]
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2003-04-01 16:58 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2003-04-01 17:26 ` Is a driver allowed to modify dev->flags? Donald Becker
2003-04-01 17:40 ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
2003-04-02 13:01 ` Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
2003-04-01 16:49 Rask Ingemann Lambertsen
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