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[1/4] net: ll_temac: Do not make promiscuous mode sticky on multicast

Message ID 20190523120222.3807-2-esben@geanix.com
State Accepted
Delegated to: David Miller
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Series net: ll_temac: Fix and enable multicast support | expand

Commit Message

Esben Haabendal May 23, 2019, 12:02 p.m. UTC 
When user has requested IFF_ALLMULTI or have set more than 4 multicast
addresses, we should just use promiscuous mode, but not set it in flags,
as it causes the interface to stay in promiscuous mode even when the
non-IFF_PROMISC condition that caused promiscuous mode to be enabled
has gone away.

Signed-off-by: Esben Haabendal <esben@geanix.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/ll_temac_main.c | 7 -------
 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/ll_temac_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/ll_temac_main.c
index 47c4515..05195ff 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/ll_temac_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/xilinx/ll_temac_main.c
@@ -388,13 +388,6 @@  static void temac_set_multicast_list(struct net_device *ndev)
 	mutex_lock(lp->indirect_mutex);
 	if (ndev->flags & (IFF_ALLMULTI | IFF_PROMISC) ||
 	    netdev_mc_count(ndev) > MULTICAST_CAM_TABLE_NUM) {
-		/*
-		 *	We must make the kernel realise we had to move
-		 *	into promisc mode or we start all out war on
-		 *	the cable. If it was a promisc request the
-		 *	flag is already set. If not we assert it.
-		 */
-		ndev->flags |= IFF_PROMISC;
 		temac_indirect_out32(lp, XTE_AFM_OFFSET, XTE_AFM_EPPRM_MASK);
 		dev_info(&ndev->dev, "Promiscuous mode enabled.\n");
 	} else if (!netdev_mc_empty(ndev)) {