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From: Wang Chen <wangchen@cn.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: v2 [PATCH net-next 1/8] af_packet: Check return of dev_set_promiscuity/allmulti
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2008 11:31:14 +0800
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Wang Chen said the following on 2008-7-1 11:21:
> dev_set_promiscuity/allmulti might overflow.
> Commit: "netdevice: Fix promiscuity and allmulti overflow" in net-next makes
> dev_set_promiscuity/allmulti return error number if overflow happened.
> 
> In af_packet, we check all positive increment for promiscuity and allmulti
> to get error return.
> 

oops, the subject should be 1/7.
sorry :(