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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/3] virtio_net: set multicast filter list to
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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2013 13:26:17 -0500 (EST)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2013 16:16:32 -0800

> The virtio_net driver never sends the multicast address list to
> the host. This is because send command takes a pointer to scatter list
> to send but only inserts that one entry into the outgoing scatter list.
> 
> This bug has been there since:
> commit f565a7c259d71cc186753653d978c646d2354b36
> Author: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
> Date:   Wed Feb 4 09:02:45 2009 +0000
> 
>     virtio_net: Add a MAC filter table
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>

I'm just going to assume for now that you agree with the anaylsis of
others that the sg lists are processed properly as-is, and therefore
your patch isn't necessary.

Let me know if that is not the case.

Thanks.