netdev - mlx4_en: Fix loss of promiscuity

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Date:	Sun, 27 Mar 2011 19:01:26 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@...lanox.co.il>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: mlx4_en: Fix loss of promiscuity

Hi:

mlx4_en: Fix loss of promiscuity

The mlx4_en driver uses the combination stop_port/start_port
in a number of places.  Unfortunately that causes any promiscuous
mode settings on the hardware to be lost.

This patch fixes that problem.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx4/en_netdev.c b/drivers/net/mlx4/en_netdev.c
index 5762ebd..4f158ba 100644
--- a/drivers/net/mlx4/en_netdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/mlx4/en_netdev.c
@@ -742,6 +742,9 @@ int mlx4_en_start_port(struct net_device *dev)
 				  0, MLX4_PROT_ETH))
 		mlx4_warn(mdev, "Failed Attaching Broadcast\n");
 
+	/* Must redo promiscuous mode setup. */
+	priv->flags &= ~(MLX4_EN_FLAG_PROMISC | MLX4_EN_FLAG_MC_PROMISC);
+
 	/* Schedule multicast task to populate multicast list */
 	queue_work(mdev->workqueue, &priv->mcast_task);
 
Thanks,
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Email: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
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