Re: [PATCH 0/7] qemu:virtio-net: Add MAC and VLAN filtering

[Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>]

Any comments Rusty?  I'm waiting for input on the kernel bits to apply 
the QEMU side of this.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

Alex Williamson wrote:
> This series adds the ability for the guest to set the virtio-net device
> MAC address, a new control virtqueue for setting configuration data from
> the guest, and new interfaces making use of the control virtqueue for
> setting RX mode options, MAC filter table entries, and VLAN filter bits.
> The end result is that the virtio-net device has more of the features of
> a realy hardware NIC and can be configured to drop packets the guest
> isn't interested in seeing.
>
> This version incorporates the review comments from Mark McLoughlin,
> particularly including much better commit logs, factoring control
> commands into separate functions, and making a local ETH_ALEN define.
> Also new in this version is the addition of VLAN filtering.  Please
> comment and/or apply.  Thanks,
>
> Alex
>
> Note - This series depends on the previous patch sent to correct
> save and load of the virtio-net state.
> ---
>
> Alex Williamson (7):
>       qemu:virtio-net: Add VLAN filtering
>       qemu:virtio-net: Add additional MACs via a filter table
>       qemu:virtio-net: Enable filtering based on MAC, promisc, broadcast and allmulti
>       qemu:virtio-net: Add promiscuous and all-multicast mode bits
>       qemu:virtio-net: Add a virtqueue for control commands from the guest
>       qemu:virtio-net: Define ETH_ALEN for use when manipulating MAC addresses
>       qemu:virtio-net: Allow setting the MAC address via set_config
>
>
>  qemu/hw/virtio-net.c |  280 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  qemu/hw/virtio-net.h |   61 +++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 333 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
>