netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 5/8] ipv6: Check return of dev_set

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Message-ID: <48607FB7.9050908@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:01:43 +0800
From:	Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 
	<yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
CC:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/8] ipv6: Check return of dev_set_allmulti

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 said the following on 2008-6-24 11:52:
> In article <485AFFFB.5040901@...fujitsu.com> (at Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:55:23 +0800), Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com> says:
> 
>> allmulti might overflow.
>> Commit: "netdevice: Fix promiscuity and allmulti overflow" in net-next makes
>> dev_set_promiscuity/allmulti return error number if overflow happened.
>>
>> Here, we check the positive increment for allmulti to get error return.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
> 
> The comment is too obvious to have.
> 

It's just explain the background of this series of fix.

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