netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH v1] 8021q: fix vlan device to inherit the unicast filtering capability flag

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Date:	Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:09:03 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	yi.zou@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...n-fcoe.org
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH v1] 8021q: fix vlan device to inherit the
 unicast filtering capability flag

From: Yi Zou <yi.zou@...el.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:45:24 -0800

> This bug is observed on running FCoE over a VLAN device associated w/
> a real device that has IFF_UNICAST_FLT set since FCoE would add unicast
> address such as FLOGI MAC to the VLAN interface that FCoE is on. Since
> currently, VLAN device is not inheriting the IFF_UNICAST_FLT flag from the
> parent real device even though the real device is capable of doing unicast
> filtering. This forces the VLAN device and its real device go to promiscuous
> mode unnecessarily even the added address is actually being added to the
> available unicast filter table in real device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@...el.com>

Applied.
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