netdev - Re: [PATCH] Multicast socket option

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Message-Id: <20090602.004534.165425108.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:45:34 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	niv@...ibm.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dlstevens@...ibm.com, cl@...ux.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Multicast socket option

From: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@...ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 10:00:46 -0700

> After some discussion offline with Christoph Lameter and David Stevens
> regarding multicast behaviour in Linux, I'm submitting a slightly
> modified patch from the one Christoph submitted earlier.
> 
> This patch provides a new socket option IP_MULTICAST_ALL.
> 
> In this case, default behaviour is _unchanged_ from the current
> Linux standard. The socket option is set by default to provide
> original behaviour. Sockets wishing to receive data only from
> multicast groups they join explicitly will need to clear this socket
> option.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nivedita Singhvi <niv@...ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter<cl@...ux.com>
> Acked-by: David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>

Applied, thanks.
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