netdev - Re: v2 [PATCH net-next 3/7] bridge: Check return of dev_set

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Message-ID: <486B393A.5000205@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Wed, 02 Jul 2008 16:15:54 +0800
From:	Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, NETDEV <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Subject: Re: v2 [PATCH net-next 3/7] bridge: Check return of dev_set_promiscuity

Wang Chen said the following on 2008-7-1 11:25:
> dev_set_promiscuity/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 promiscuity to get error return.
> 

Of course, I did the unwind job.

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