On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 12:04:50 -0700, Vijay Khemka wrote:
> Disabling multicast filtering from NCSI if it is supported. As it
> should not filter any multicast packets. In current code, multicast
> filter is enabled and with an exception of optional field supported
> by device are disabled filtering.
>
> Mainly I see if goal is to disable filtering for IPV6 packets then let
> it disabled for every other types as well. As we are seeing issues with
> LLDP not working with this enabled filtering. And there are other issues
> with IPV6.
>
> By Disabling this multicast completely, it is working for both IPV6 as
> well as LLDP.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vijay Khemka <[email protected]>
> @@ -1033,23 +1030,23 @@ static void ncsi_configure_channel(struct
> ncsi_dev_priv *ndp)
> } else if (nd->state == ncsi_dev_state_config_ebf) {
> nca.type = NCSI_PKT_CMD_EBF;
> nca.dwords[0] = nc->caps[NCSI_CAP_BC].cap;
> - if (ncsi_channel_is_tx(ndp, nc))
> + /* if multicast global filtering is supported then
> + * disable it so that all multicast packet will be
> + * forwarded to management controller
> + */
> + if (nc->caps[NCSI_CAP_GENERIC].cap &
> + NCSI_CAP_GENERIC_MC)
Applied, looks like an unnecessary space sneaked in here, I removed it.
