netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] bridge: add support for IGMPv3 and MLDv2 querier

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Date:   Mon, 21 Nov 2016 13:17:15 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        sashok@...ulusnetworks.com, stephen@...workplumber.org,
        liuhangbin@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/2] bridge: add support for IGMPv3 and MLDv2
 querier

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 13:03:23 +0100

> This patch-set adds support for IGMPv3 and MLDv2 querier in the bridge.
> Two new options which can be toggled via netlink and sysfs are added that
> control the version per-bridge:
>  multicast_igmp_version - default 2, can be set to 3
>  multicast_mld_version - default 1, can be set to 2 (this option is
>                          disabled if CONFIG_IPV6=n)
> 
> Note that the names do not include "querier", I think that these options
> can be re-used later as more IGMPv3 support is added to the bridge so we
> can avoid adding more options to switch between v2 and v3 behaviour.
> 
> The set uses the already existing br_ip{4,6}_multicast_alloc_query
> functions and adds the appropriate header based on the chosen version.
> 
> For the initial support I have removed the compatibility implementation
> (RFC3376 sec 7.3.1, 7.3.2; RFC3810 sec 8.3.1, 8.3.2), because there are
> some details that we need to sort out.

Series applied, thanks.