This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
r8169: allow multicast packets on sub-8168f chipset.
to the 3.6-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
r8169-allow-multicast-packets-on-sub-8168f-chipset.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 0481776b7a70f09acf7d9d97c288c3a8403fbfe4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nathan Walp <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2012 12:08:47 +0000
Subject: r8169: allow multicast packets on sub-8168f chipset.
From: Nathan Walp <[email protected]>
commit 0481776b7a70f09acf7d9d97c288c3a8403fbfe4 upstream.
RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_35 includes no multicast hardware filter.
Signed-off-by: Nathan Walp <[email protected]>
Suggested-by: Hayes Wang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Francois Romieu <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
@@ -4526,6 +4526,9 @@ static void rtl_set_rx_mode(struct net_d
mc_filter[1] = swab32(data);
}
+ if (tp->mac_version == RTL_GIGA_MAC_VER_35)
+ mc_filter[1] = mc_filter[0] = 0xffffffff;
+
RTL_W32(MAR0 + 4, mc_filter[1]);
RTL_W32(MAR0 + 0, mc_filter[0]);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected]
are
queue-3.6/r8169-allow-multicast-packets-on-sub-8168f-chipset.patch
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