From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: yi.zou@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, devel@open-fcoe.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v1] 8021q: fix vlan device to inherit the unicast filtering capability flag
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:09:03 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121130.120903.2063684278156777942.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121128234520.6615.41220.stg.yi.zou@intel.com>
From: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:45:24 -0800
> This bug is observed on running FCoE over a VLAN device associated w/
> a real device that has IFF_UNICAST_FLT set since FCoE would add unicast
> address such as FLOGI MAC to the VLAN interface that FCoE is on. Since
> currently, VLAN device is not inheriting the IFF_UNICAST_FLT flag from the
> parent real device even though the real device is capable of doing unicast
> filtering. This forces the VLAN device and its real device go to promiscuous
> mode unnecessarily even the added address is actually being added to the
> available unicast filter table in real device.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Applied.
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2012-11-28 23:45 [net-next PATCH v1] 8021q: fix vlan device to inherit the unicast filtering capability flag Yi Zou
2012-11-30 17:09 ` David Miller [this message]
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