RE: [net-next 11/17] i40e: Add promiscuous on VLAN support

-----Original Message-----
From: David Miller [mailto:davem@davemloft.net]
Sent: Tuesday, October 13, 2015 4:14 AM
To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T
Cc: Rose, Gregory V; netdev@vger.kernel.org; nhorman@redhat.com;
sassmann@redhat.com; jogreene@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next 11/17] i40e: Add promiscuous on VLAN support

From: Jeff Kirsher <redacted>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 22:53:12 -0700

quoted

From: Greg Rose <redacted>

NFV use cases require the ability to steer packets to VSIs by VLAN tag
alone while being in promiscuous mode for multicast and unicast MAC
addresses.  These two new functions support that ability.

Change-ID: Ifef704b07e0ee8a39d3c351dbd5dc83bb2f63c45
Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <redacted>
Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <redacted>

Nothing in the driver calls these functions.

Please do not add code or defines or facilities that are completely unused
in the upstream driver.

The patch(es) that use these functions are not yet prepared.  We will wait until they're ready to submit these patches.  Sorry for the confusion but I was out on vacation and didn't have a chance to coordinate this with Jeff.

Jeff,

We needed the VF trust code in the kernel before we could add in these additional patches.  We can work with Anjali to get those now that the VF trust feature is in the kernel.

- Greg