Re: [net-next PATCH v1 2/7] net: addr_list: add exclusive dev_uc_add and dev_mc_add

[Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>]

On Mon, 2012-04-09 at 15:00 -0700, John Fastabend wrote:
> This adds a dev_uc_add_excl() and dev_mc_add_excl() calls
> similar to the original dev_{uc|mc}_add() except it sets
> the global bit and returns -EEXIST for duplicat entires.
> 
> This is useful for drivers that support SR-IOV, macvlan
> devices and any other devices that need to manage the
> unicast and multicast lists.
[...]
> +/**
> + *	dev_mc_add_excl - Add a global secondary multicast address
> + *	@dev: device
> + *	@addr: address to add
> + */
> +int dev_mc_add_excl(struct net_device *dev, unsigned char *addr)
> +{
> +	struct netdev_hw_addr *ha;
> +	int err;
> +
> +	netif_addr_lock_bh(dev);
> +	list_for_each_entry(ha, &dev->mc.list, list) {
> +		if (!memcmp(ha->addr, addr, dev->addr_len) &&
> +		    ha->type == NETDEV_HW_ADDR_T_UNICAST) {
> +			err = -EEXIST;
> +			goto out;
> +		}
> +	}
> +	err = __hw_addr_create_ex(&dev->mc, addr, dev->addr_len,
> +				  NETDEV_HW_ADDR_T_UNICAST, true);
[...]

The address types are wrong.  But do we even need this function yet?

Ben.

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