[PATCH stable] Separate multicast configuration for mesh and wlan interfaces.

Andres Salomon dilinger at queued.net
Tue May 13 13:20:19 EDT 2008


On Tue, 13 May 2008 15:45:39 +0100
David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 15:38 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > 
> > And even without that, it doesn't seem to do the right thing. Set
> > IFF_PROMISC mode on one interface, then on the other, then clear it
> > on the first.... it should remain set in hardware. And AFAICT it
> > doesn't.
> > 
> > I'll see if I can make it work....
> 
> Hm, a single cup of tea mostly achieves that; sorry :)
> 
> I was missing the fact that priv->packetfilter[] is now an array.
> It got a bit clearer after I reformatted it to stop trying to fit in
> 80 columns. Sometimes the code just doesn't fit; it's painful to try
> to make it.
> 

Gosh, I sure wish you, Andrew, checkpatch.pl, and Ingo[0] were all on the same page
regarding that.. it would sure make my life easier.

[0] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/679732/focus=679760



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