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Message-Id: <1362687708-8685-1-git-send-email-vyasevic@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 15:21:48 -0500
From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
To: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] macvlan: Set IFF_UNICAST_FLT flag to prevent unnecessary promisc mode.
Macvlan already supports hw address filters. Set the IFF_UNICAST_FLT
so that it doesn't needlesly enter PROMISC mode when macvlans are
stacked.
Signed-of-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
---
drivers/net/macvlan.c | 1 +
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/macvlan.c b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
index 417b2af..73abbc1 100644
--- a/drivers/net/macvlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/macvlan.c
@@ -660,6 +660,7 @@ void macvlan_common_setup(struct net_device *dev)
ether_setup(dev);
dev->priv_flags &= ~(IFF_XMIT_DST_RELEASE | IFF_TX_SKB_SHARING);
+ dev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT;
dev->netdev_ops = &macvlan_netdev_ops;
dev->destructor = free_netdev;
dev->header_ops = &macvlan_hard_header_ops,
--
1.7.7.6
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