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Commit fbb0a27a authored Mar 09, 2008 by Adam Baker Committed by John W. Linville Mar 11, 2008

rt2x00: never disable multicast because it disables broadcast too



On rt73 and rt61 disabling reception of multicast packets also disables
broadcast traffic which we never want to do. Therefore we should never
disable multicast.

Signed-off-by: Adam Baker <linux@baker-net.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>

parent 5f0547c2

drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c

+2 −2

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		@@ -2302,8 +2302,8 @@ static void rt61pci_configure_filter(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
		* Apply some rules to the filters:
		* - Some filters imply different filters to be set.
		* - Some things we can't filter out at all.
		* - Multicast filter seems to kill broadcast traffic so never use it.
		*/
		if (mc_count)
		*total_flags \|= FIF_ALLMULTI;
		if (*total_flags & FIF_OTHER_BSS \|\|
		*total_flags & FIF_PROMISC_IN_BSS)

drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c

+2 −2

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -1869,8 +1869,8 @@ static void rt73usb_configure_filter(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
		* Apply some rules to the filters:
		* - Some filters imply different filters to be set.
		* - Some things we can't filter out at all.
		* - Multicast filter seems to kill broadcast traffic so never use it.
		*/
		if (mc_count)
		*total_flags \|= FIF_ALLMULTI;
		if (*total_flags & FIF_OTHER_BSS \|\|
		*total_flags & FIF_PROMISC_IN_BSS)