Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] qeth: Default to allow promiscuous mode | From | "Evgeny Cherkashin" <> | Date | Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:07:34 +0000 |
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Hello Alexander,
-----Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de> wrote: -----
send it explicitly if that makes it move obvious, sure. > >> 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
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