Re: [PATCH] qeth: Default to allow promiscuous mode

Hello Alexander,

-----Alexander Graf [off-list ref] wrote: -----

send it explicitly if that makes it move obvious, sure.

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3. The patch should probably go via the -networking maillist.

Ah, get_maintainers.pl didn't list it. You may want to send a patch
for
the MAINTAINERS file here :).

My mistake, you've sent it to the right place.

About the nature of the patch:

- Enabling bridgeport on adaptors on which bridgeport is already used by somebody else will break somebody else's operation.

- Therefore, system administrator must only enable bridgeport on adaptors on which nobody else tries to use it (without coordinating with them).

- Making bridge_reflect_promisc enabled by default makes it impossible.

- Therefore, bridge_reflect_promisc must not be enabled by default.

(Those who enable bridge_reflect_promisc blindly on all adaptors will break their users' setup, and will have to deal with the consequences.)

Regards,

Evgeny Cherkashin / Евгений Черкашин / Eugene Crosser (preferred)
Software Engineer, IBM Science and Technology Center, Linux on z-Systems Development
tel. +7 495 775 8800 ext.1103, Moscow 123317, Presnenskaya emb. 10