netdev - Re: [PATCH] nfp: add basic multicast filtering

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Date:   Fri, 05 Jan 2018 13:47:08 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     simon.horman@...ronome.com
Cc:     jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        oss-drivers@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nfp: add basic multicast filtering

From: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>
Date: Thu,  4 Jan 2018 16:10:19 +0100

> From: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
> 
> We currently always pass all multicast traffic through.
> Only set L2MC when actually needed.  Since the driver
> was not making use of the capability to filter out mcast
> frames, some FW projects don't implement it any more.
> Don't warn users if capability is not present (like we
> do for promisc flag).  The lack of L2MC capability is
> assumed to mean all multicast traffic goes through.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <simon.horman@...ronome.com>

Applied, thanks Simon.