On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 10:28 AM, David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:09 -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > > > Ashish comments on #6869: Firmware release - 5.110.22.p9 as follows: > > > > Currently firmware 5.110.22.p8/9 does not support more than 8 multicast > > mac addresses. Is there a possibility that any given point of time > there > > are more than 8 multicast address required? > > > > Is this going to be a problem for anyone? > > Theoretically we go into ALLMULTI mode (and filter on the host) when we > exceed the size of the multicast list that the device can handle. There > shouldn't be a hard limit on the number of multicast groups that > userspace can join; it just gets less efficient. In this case, it seems a bad choice to compromise buffer space in exchange of an improbable scenario (sharing more than 4 activities over a simple mesh). > > > However, we believe that size to be 32 (MRVDRV_MAX_MULTICAST_LIST_SIZE > in defs.h). Mmm, if the driver says it is 32 and the firmware only allows for 8, we have a problem, don't we? ;-) > > > -- > dwmw2 > > _______________________________________________ > Devel mailing list > Devel@lists.laptop.org > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel >
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