From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller 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) Message-ID: <20121130.120903.2063684278156777942.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20121128234520.6615.41220.stg.yi.zou@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, devel@open-fcoe.org To: yi.zou@intel.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:44506 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757310Ab2K3RJF (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:09:05 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20121128234520.6615.41220.stg.yi.zou@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Yi Zou 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 Applied.