netdev - Re: [PATCH] af_packet: Teach to listen for multiple unicast addresses.

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Date:	Thu, 21 May 2009 15:15:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ebiederm@...ssion.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] af_packet: Teach to listen for multiple unicast
 addresses.

From: ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: Tue, 19 May 2009 21:27:17 -0700

> 
> The the PACKET_ADD_MEMBERSHIP and the PACKET_DROP_MEMBERSHIP setsockopt
> calls for af_packet already has all of the infrastructure needed to subscribe
> to multiple mac addresses.  All that is missing is a flag to say that
> the address we want to listen on is a unicast address.
> 
> So introduce PACKET_MR_UNICAST and wire it up to dev_unicast_add and
> dev_unicast_delete.
> 
> Additionally I noticed that errors from dev_mc_add were not propagated
> from packet_dev_mc so fix that.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...stanetworks.com>

Looks good, applied to net-next-2.6
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