netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: core: change bool members of struct net

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Message-ID: <b172bfa0-d3bf-94b8-bb5f-0bd849e753b7@gmail.com>
Date:   Mon, 8 Oct 2018 23:21:27 +0200
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: core: change bool members of struct
 net_device to bitfield members

On 08.10.2018 23:20, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 22:00:51 +0200
> Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com> wrote:
> 
>>   *
>> + *	@uc_promisc:	Counter that indicates promiscuous mode
>> + *			has been enabled due to the need to listen to
>> + *			additional unicast addresses in a device that
>> + *			does not implement ndo_set_rx_mode()
>> + *
> 
> I see you just moved the pre-existing comment, but it the comment
> looks incorrect. uc_promisc is not a counter but a flag. A counter would
> have more than two states normally.
> 
Right. A v2 fixing the comment has been submitted already.