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| author | Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@aristanetworks.com> | 2014-10-22 15:29:24 +0000 |
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| committer | Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> | 2014-10-30 04:47:39 -0700 |
| commit | a22bb0b9b9b09b4cc711f6d577679773e074dde9 (patch) | |
| tree | ee0ef59e2c53fae0c80c69960929e8788e2fa960 /drivers/net/ethernet | |
| parent | d70127e8a942364de8dd140fe73893efda363293 (diff) | |
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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: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@arista.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c index 5f6aded512f5..24f3986cfae2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c @@ -1075,7 +1075,10 @@ static int e1000_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG); - netdev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT; + /* 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); |
