netdev - Re: [net-next] vlan: turn on unicast filtering on vlan device

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Date:	Sun, 21 Feb 2016 21:54:33 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	zhangshengju@...s.chinamobile.com
Cc:	kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next] vlan: turn on unicast filtering on vlan device

From: Zhang Shengju <zhangshengju@...s.chinamobile.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 10:00:11 +0000

> Currently vlan device inherits unicast filtering flag from underlying
> device. If underlying device doesn't support unicast filter, this will
> put vlan device into promiscuous mode when it's stacked.
> 
> Tun on IFF_UNICAST_FLT on the vlan device in any case so that it does
> not go into promiscuous mode needlessly. If underlying device does not
> support unicast filtering, that device will enter promiscuous mode.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Zhang Shengju <zhangshengju@...s.chinamobile.com>

Applied, thanks.