netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: multicast to unicast

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Message-ID: <1484045763.1014.0.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date:   Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:56:03 +0100
From:   Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:     Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@...3.blue>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     "M. Braun" <michael-dev@...i-braun.de>,
        Felix Fietkau <nbd@....name>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: multicast to unicast

On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 05:18 +0100, Linus Lüssing wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 01:30:32PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > I wonder if MAC80211 should be doing IGMP snooping and not bridge
> > in this environment.
> 
> In the long term, yes. For now, not quite sure.

There's no "for now" in the kernel. Code added now will have to be
maintained essentially forever.

johannes