From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [VLAN] set_rx_mode support for unicast address list
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2008 18:27:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4798CA83.4080203@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080124160738.11781.23745.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Chris Leech wrote:
> Reuse the existing logic for multicast list synchronization for the unicast
> address list. The core of dev_mc_sync/unsync are split out as
> __dev_addr_sync/unsync and moved from dev_mcast.c to dev.c. These are then
> used to implement dev_unicast_sync/unsync as well.
>
> I'm working on cleaning up Intel's FCoE stack, which generates new MAC
> addresses from the fibre channel device id assigned by the fabric as per the
> current draft specification in T11. When using such a protocol in a VLAN
> environment it would be nice to not always be forced into promiscuous mode,
> assuming the underlying Ethernet driver supports multiple unicast addresses as
> well.
Looks good, applied. Thanks Chris.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-24 17:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-24 16:07 [VLAN] set_rx_mode support for unicast address list Chris Leech
2008-01-24 17:27 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
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2008-01-29 15:09 [VLAN]: " Patrick McHardy
2008-02-01 0:54 ` David Miller
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