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Commit a22bb0b9 authored by Francesco Ruggeri's avatar Francesco Ruggeri Committed by Jeff Kirsher
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e1000: unset IFF_UNICAST_FLT on WMware 82545EM 



VMWare's e1000 implementation does not seem to support unicast filtering.
This can be observed by configuring a macvlan interface on eth0 in a VM in
VMWare Fusion 5.0.5, and trying to use that interface instead of eth0.
Tested on 3.16.

Signed-off-by: default avatarFrancesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@arista.com>
Tested-by: default avatarAaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
parent d70127e8

drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c

+4 −1
Original line number Diff line number Diff line
@@ -1075,6 +1075,9 @@ static int e1000_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) 
				  NETIF_F_HW_CSUM |

				  NETIF_F_SG);



	/* Do not set IFF_UNICAST_FLT for VMWare's 82545EM */

	if (hw->device_id != E1000_DEV_ID_82545EM_COPPER ||

	    hw->subsystem_vendor_id != PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE)

		netdev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT;



	adapter->en_mng_pt = e1000_enable_mng_pass_thru(hw);