From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Johan Faltstrom <johan.faltstrom@netinsight.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] kni: Add set_rx_mode callback to handle multicast groups
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 17:31:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <19936393.CaRDrBdnp3@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F35DEAC7BCE34641BA9FAC6BCA4A12E70A86F8F9@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com>
> > We did some (very basic) tests with IGMP, which involves adding multicast
> > addresses to ETH interfaces. This is done via the ip tool, an example can be found
> > on e.g.,
> >
> > http://superuser.com/questions/324824/linux-built-in-or-open-source-program-
> > to-join-multicast-group
> >
> > and this will fail on KNI interfaces because of an unimplemented ioctl
> > SIOCADDMULTI. The patch simply adds an empty callback for set_rx_mode
> > (typically used for setting up hardware) so that the ioctl succeeds.
> > This is the same thing as the Linux tap interface does.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>
> > Signed-off-by: Johan Faltstrom <johan.faltstrom@netinsight.net>
> Acked-by: Helin Zhang <helin.zhang@intel.com>
Applied, thanks
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2015-06-02 7:21 Simon Kagstrom
2015-06-02 7:31 ` Zhang, Helin
2015-06-16 15:31 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
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