From: Filip Sadowski <filip.sadow...@intel.com>
This patch clarifies the reason for removal of automatically
firmware-generated filter and explicit addition of filter which
accepts frames with any VLAN id.
Change-ID: Iabf180b6d61c4d8a36d3bcf8457c377a6f2aca0e
Signed-off-by: Filip Sadowski <filip.sadow...@intel.com>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bow...@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
index e577ff8a9c76..414685c683d7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_main.c
@@ -9461,10 +9461,10 @@ static int i40e_config_netdev(struct i40e_vsi *vsi)
if (vsi->type == I40E_VSI_MAIN) {
SET_NETDEV_DEV(netdev, &pf->pdev->dev);
ether_addr_copy(mac_addr, hw->mac.perm_addr);
- /* The following steps are necessary to prevent reception
- * of tagged packets - some older NVM configurations load a
- * default a MAC-VLAN filter that accepts any tagged packet
- * which must be replaced by a normal filter.
+ /* The following steps are necessary to properly keep track of
+ * MAC-VLAN filters loaded into firmware - first we remove
+ * filter that is automatically generated by firmware and then
+ * add new filter both to the driver hash table and firmware.
*/
i40e_rm_default_mac_filter(vsi, mac_addr);
spin_lock_bh(&vsi->mac_filter_hash_lock);
--
2.12.0
