From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] zd1211rw: Support for multicast addresses Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:50:36 -0800 Message-ID: <20061130175036.35f0ccf7@localhost.localdomain> References: <20061201005807.C04067B409F@zog.reactivated.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linville@tuxdriver.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, kune@deine-taler.de, benoit.papillault@free.fr Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.25]:56017 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755620AbWLABvD (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Nov 2006 20:51:03 -0500 To: Daniel Drake In-Reply-To: <20061201005807.C04067B409F@zog.reactivated.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 00:58:07 +0000 (GMT) Daniel Drake wrote: > From: Ulrich Kunitz > > Support for multicast adresses is implemented by supporting the > set_multicast_list() function of the network device. Address > filtering is supported by a group hash table in the device. > > This is based on earlier work by Benoit Papillaut. Fixes multicast packet > reception and ipv6 connectivity: > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7424 > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7425 > > Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz > Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake Why all the trouble do it off work queue? Is someone calling set_multicast_list with IRQ's disabled?