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| author | Filip Sadowski <filip.sadowski@intel.com> | 2017-01-30 23:29:34 +0300 |
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| committer | Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> | 2017-03-15 11:59:35 +0300 |
| commit | 3954b39102677c879d7663621fb9a7e0da349274 (patch) | |
| tree | d1ceba5bc1ae1f202ebf4da869dc0565d9527b99 /drivers | |
| parent | 26f77e53cfee2b1b066071353be03988897e23c3 (diff) | |
| download | linux-3954b39102677c879d7663621fb9a7e0da349274.tar.xz | |
i40e: Clarify steps in MAC/VLAN filters initialization routine
This patch clarifies the reason for removal of automatically
firmware-generated filter and explicit addition of filter which
accepts frames with any VLAN id.
Change-ID: Iabf180b6d61c4d8a36d3bcf8457c377a6f2aca0e
Signed-off-by: Filip Sadowski <filip.sadowski@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c index e577ff8a9c76..414685c683d7 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c @@ -9461,10 +9461,10 @@ static int i40e_config_netdev(struct i40e_vsi *vsi) if (vsi->type == I40E_VSI_MAIN) { SET_NETDEV_DEV(netdev, &pf->pdev->dev); ether_addr_copy(mac_addr, hw->mac.perm_addr); - /* The following steps are necessary to prevent reception - * of tagged packets - some older NVM configurations load a - * default a MAC-VLAN filter that accepts any tagged packet - * which must be replaced by a normal filter. + /* The following steps are necessary to properly keep track of + * MAC-VLAN filters loaded into firmware - first we remove + * filter that is automatically generated by firmware and then + * add new filter both to the driver hash table and firmware. */ i40e_rm_default_mac_filter(vsi, mac_addr); spin_lock_bh(&vsi->mac_filter_hash_lock); |