On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 04:35:40PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote: > El 21/01/16 a les 16.29, Ian Campbell ha escrit: > > On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 12:50 +0000, Paul Durrant wrote: > >> My patch b2700877 "move and amend multicast control documentation" > >> clarified use of the multicast control protocol between frontend and > >> backend. However, it transpires that the restrictions that documentation > >> placed on the "request-multicast-control" flag make it hard for a > >> frontend to enable 'all multicast' promiscuous mode, in that to do so > >> would require the frontend and backend to disconnect and re-connect. > >> > >> This patch adds a new "feature-dynamic-multicast-control" flag to allow > >> a backend to advertise that it will watch "request-multicast-control" hence > >> allowing it to be meaningfully modified by the frontend at any time rather > >> than only when the frontend and backend are disconnected. > >> > >> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com> > >> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com> > >> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> > >> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> > >> Cc: Keir Fraser <k...@xen.org> > >> Cc: Tim Deegan <t...@xen.org> > > > > > > This looks good to me, but also adding Wei (Linux netback + BSD stuff) and > > Roger (BSD stuff) for their perspective. > > > > I should probably have done that for the last set of netif.h changes too, > > since apart from the nominal maintainers of xen/include/public/io/*.h it's > > worth getting input from the maintainers of the consumers. Not sure we can > > express that very well in MAINTAINERS :-(. > > I'm going to leave this one to Wei, he has more experience than me > regarding FreeBSD netfront (and xen-net related topics). > > FWIW, a quick and dirty grep on FreeBSD netfront doesn't show any > results for "request-multicast-control", so I guess it's not implemented. >
No, it is not implemented. Wei. > Roger. > _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
