linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: bridge: Allow bridge to joing multicast groups

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Message-ID: <20190801194801.rqv5jvb5vxjo2dor@soft-dev3.microsemi.net>
Date:   Thu, 1 Aug 2019 21:48:02 +0200
From:   Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@...rochip.com>
To:     Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>
CC:     <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>, <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        <davem@...emloft.net>, <bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
        <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <allan.nielsen@...rochip.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bridge: Allow bridge to joing multicast groups

Hi Vivien,

The 08/01/2019 15:17, Vivien Didelot wrote:
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> I'm a bit late in the conversation. Isn't this what you want?
> 
>     ip address add <multicast IPv4 address> dev br0 autojoin
> 

Not really, I was looking in a way to register the ports to link layer
multicast address. Sorry for the confusion, my description of the patch
was totally missleaning.

If you follow this thread you will get a better idea what we wanted to
achive. We got some really good comments and based on these we send a
RFC[1]. 

> 
> Thanks,
> Vivien

[1] https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1140468/

-- 
/Horatiu