• James Harper's avatar
    [PATCH] fix PROMISC/bridging in TLAN driver · 562faf46
    James Harper authored
    This has been a problem for me for ages.  When using bridging, the driver
    is switched into promiscuous mode before the link init is complete.  The
    init complete routine then resets the promisc bit on the card so the kernel
    still thinks the card is in promiscuous mode but the card isn't.  doh.
    
    I think this bug only shows up in bridging when the bridge is started at
    boot time (or something else that sets promisc at the same time the card
    was started).  If promisc is enabled later it works.
    
    Here's a trivial (and hopefully correct) patch that works for me. It
    just calls the promisc/multicast setup routine after init.
    
    Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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