netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: bridge: suppress broadcast when multicast flood is disabled

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Date:   Mon, 24 Apr 2017 12:00:35 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Mike Manning <mmanning@...cade.com>
Cc:     <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bridge: suppress broadcast when multicast flood is
 disabled

On Mon, 24 Apr 2017 15:09:04 +0100
Mike Manning <mmanning@...cade.com> wrote:

> Flood suppression for packets that are not unicast needs to be handled
> consistently by also not flooding broadcast packets. As broadcast is a
> special case of multicast, the same kernel parameter should be used to
> suppress flooding for both of these packet types.
> 
> Fixes: b6cb5ac8331b ("net: bridge: add per-port multicast flood flag")
> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmanning@...cade.com>
> ---

Makes sense.

Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>