netdev - Re: [PATCH?] Fix call to ->change_rx_flags(dev, IFF_MULTICAST) in dev_change

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Date:	Tue, 20 May 2008 14:36:41 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	dwmw2@...radead.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH?] Fix call to ->change_rx_flags(dev, IFF_MULTICAST) in
 dev_change_flags()

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 14:47:32 +0200

> David Woodhouse wrote:
> > Am I just being particularly dim today, or can the call to
> > dev->change_rx_flags(dev, IFF_MULTICAST) in dev_change_flags() never
> > happen?
> > 
> > We've just set dev->flags = flags & IFF_MULTICAST, effectively. So the
> > condition '(dev->flags ^ flags) & IFF_MULTICAST' is _never_ going to be
> > true.
> 
> Thanks for catching this, you're correct of course.

Applied and queued to -stable, thanks everyone!
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