netdev - Re: [PATCH 0/5] virtio_net: Add MAC and VLAN filtering

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Date:	Sun, 18 Jan 2009 22:05:28 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alex.williamson@...com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, markmc@...hat.com,
	kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] virtio_net: Add MAC and VLAN filtering

From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 14:13:12 -0700

> This series enables setting the virtio-net device MAC address, adds
> infrastructure for the new control virtqueue, and makes use of it
> to support set_rx_mode, unicast and multicast address lists, and
> supporting a hypervisor based VLAN filter.  The goal is to make the
> virtio-net device support more of the features of a physical NIC and
> allow the hypervisor to discard packets we're not interested in.
> 
> This version incorporates the review comments from Mark McLoughlin,
> specifically, much improved comments and commit logs, verifying the
> functionality of host not providing a MAC address, moving communication
> structs into virtio_net.h, adding warnings when things don't work, and
> making the strings grep'able.  I've left the class/cmd split in the
> control header rather than consolidating it into a single value, I'm
> hoping I've made sufficient arguments for that.  Also, I left the
> error return rather than a BUG_ON in send_command because I can't
> conditionally enable set_rx_mode as it's in a const struct.  Instead,
> I've changed the caller to avoid the issue.  Please comment and/or
> apply.  Thanks,

I've been watching these patches passively, and it seems that
there have been some comments that Rusty hasn't submitted
certain virtio_net patches to me as well.

Please sort this all out and let me know what to queue up for
2.6.30

Thanks.
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