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SubjectRe: drivers: net: cpsw: Support ALLMULTI and fix IFF_PROMISC in switch mode
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From: "Lennart Sorensen" <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 13:38:52 -0400

> The cpsw driver did not support the IFF_ALLMULTI flag which makes dynamic
> multicast routing not work. Related to this, when enabling IFF_PROMISC
> in switch mode, all registered multicast addresses are flushed, resulting
> in only broadcast and unicast traffic being received.
>
> A new cpsw_ale_set_allmulti function now scans through the ALE entry
> table and adds/removes the host port from the unregistered multicast
> port mask of each vlan entry depending on the state of IFF_ALLMULTI.
> In promiscious mode, cpsw_ale_set_allmulti is used to force reception
> of all multicast traffic in addition to the unicast and broadcast traffic.
>
> With this change dynamic multicast and promiscious mode both work in
> switch mode.
>
> Signed-off-by: Len Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca>

Applied.


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