netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/5] virtio_net: Add a set_rx

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Message-Id: <1232357574.5627.18.camel@blaa>
Date:	Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:32:54 +0000
From:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
To:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] virtio_net: Add a set_rx_mode interface

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 14:13 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> Make use of the RX_MODE control virtqueue class to enable the
> set_rx_mode netdev interface.  This allows us to selectively
> enable/disable promiscuous and allmulti mode so we don't see
> packets we don't want.  We'll automatically enable these as
> needed if additional unicast or multicast addresses are
> requested.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...com>

Acked-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>

Cheers,
Mark.

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