>-----Original Message-----
>From: Lloyd, Dave [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 4:19 PM
>To: Tantilov, Emil S; [email protected]
>Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] ixgbe multicast driver drops packets when adding
>additional multicast groups
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Tantilov, Emil
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2013 5:51 PM
>> To: Lloyd, Dave; [email protected]
>> Subject: RE: [E1000-devel] ixgbe multicast driver drops packets when
>adding
>> additional multicast groups
>>
>> Hi Dave,
>>
>> Thanks for reporting this issue. This is indeed a bug in the driver.
>Could you
>> please try the following patch (it should apply on top of 3.7.14):
>
>Thanks! We'll try that out.
>
>> And let us know if it resolves your issue.
>>
>> >On a side note, I was trying to find a changelog for ixgbe_main.c . It
>> >looks like there is no source repo on Sourceforge. Should I be looking
>> >somewhere else?
>>
>> For this type of info your best bet is looking at the git repository of
>the Linux
>> kernel.
>>
>> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/davem/net-
>>
>next.git;a=history;f=drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c;h=e7109
>> de2204aecb75615bef77828ffe734646eb1;hb=HEAD
>>
>
>I looked at that tree, but it appears that set_rx_mode() is completely
>different for the entire history of the tree. Should I be looking somewhere

In this particular case the code was not ported upstream, so it will not be 
visible in the git history.

>else? Any idea why the clear was added in the first place?

The clear existed before, it's just that the:
        if (netdev_mc_empty(netdev)) {

prior to calling the mc_clear was omitted during a code refactor.

Thanks,
Emil

>
>Thanks,
>
>Dave Lloyd
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