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Re: Fw: [PATCH 2.4.22-bk] dev->promiscuity refcounting broken in

To: davem@xxxxxxxxxx (David S. Miller)
Subject: Re: Fw: [PATCH 2.4.22-bk] dev->promiscuity refcounting broken in
From: kuznet@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 09:17:22 +0400 (MSD)
Cc: jmorris@xxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, lunz@xxxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <20030701.155051.104064679.davem@redhat.com> from "David S. Miller" at Jul 01, 2003 03:50:51 PM
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Hello!

> I can't see any reason to be mucking about with the device promiscuity
> on NETDEV_DOWN and NETDEV_UP events in the first place.

I do not remember why protocols (i.e. IP) withdraw multicast lists
on device down too. :-)

>                                                        The attached
> patch seems to fix all the cases I can think of.

I think it is right.

Actually, if to follow the tradition, we could do the same thing as IP does
(remembering that mc record is not loaded), but it looks really useless.

Dave, the patch looks OK.

Alexey



PS. Wow!

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