From: Filip Sadowski Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 20:29:34 +0000 (-0800) Subject: i40e: Clarify steps in MAC/VLAN filters initialization routine X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=3954b39102677c879d7663621fb9a7e0da349274;p=GitHub%2Fmoto-9609%2Fandroid_kernel_motorola_exynos9610.git i40e: Clarify steps in MAC/VLAN filters initialization routine 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 Tested-by: Andrew Bowers Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher --- 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);