Re: [PATCH v2 net 5/6] net: enetc: don't disable VLAN filtering in IFF_PROMISC mode

[Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2021 at 05:26:53PM +0100, Markus Blöchl wrote:
> The main problem here could also just be that almost everybody _thinks_
> that promiscuity means receiving all frames and no one is aware of the
> standards definition.
> In fact, I can't blame them, as the standard is hard to come by and not
> enjoyable to read, imho. And all secondary documentation I could find
> on the internet explain promiscuous mode as a "mode of operation" in which
> "the card accepts every Ethernet packet sent on the network" or similar.
> Even libpcap, which I consider the reference on network sniffing, thinks
> that "Promiscuous mode [...] sniffs all traffic on the wire."
> 
> Thus I still think that this issue is also fixable by proper
> documentation of promiscuity.
> At least the meaning and guarantees of IFF_PROMISC in this kernel should
> be clearly defined - in one way or the other - such that users with
> different expectations can be directed there and drivers with different
> behavior can be fixed with that definition as justification.

If Jakub and/or David give us the ACK, I will go ahead and update the
documentation (probably Documentation/networking/netdevices.rst) to
mention what does IFF_PROMISC cover, _separate_ from this series.