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bnxt_en: Improve multicast address setup logic.
authorMichael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Fri, 26 Apr 2019 02:31:50 +0000 (22:31 -0400)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sat, 27 Apr 2019 21:00:18 +0000 (17:00 -0400)
commit075240134d13f3f5390a130fcd33d94e1bdcd973
treec2be9d0d8808985d17b582ad4c313a5fd2990da5
parent4cd456f964ff7f95da3dfa3e930dc41ac7ac34d2
bnxt_en: Improve multicast address setup logic.

The driver builds a list of multicast addresses and sends it to the
firmware when the driver's ndo_set_rx_mode() is called.  In rare
cases, the firmware can fail this call if internal resources to
add multicast addresses are exhausted.  In that case, we should
try the call again by setting the ALL_MCAST flag which is more
guaranteed to succeed.

Fixes: dfe047769e71 ("bnxt_en: New Broadcom ethernet driver.")
Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <michael.chan@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/bnxt/bnxt.c