netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] bridge: add per-port broadcast flood flag

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Date:   Thu, 27 Apr 2017 16:34:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     mmanning@...cade.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] bridge: add per-port broadcast flood flag

From: Mike Manning <mmanning@...cade.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 14:48:09 +0100

> Support for l2 multicast flood control was added in commit b6cb5ac8331b
> ("net: bridge: add per-port multicast flood flag"). It allows broadcast
> as it was introduced specifically for unknown multicast flood control.
> But as broadcast is a special case of multicast, this may also need to
> be disabled. For this purpose, introduce a flag to disable the flooding
> of received l2 broadcasts. This approach is backwards compatible and
> provides flexibility in filtering for the desired packet types.
> 
> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@...cade.com>

Applied, thanks for following up on this.