8260 ethernet driver multicast problem

Andy Fleming afleming at freescale.com
Thu Dec 15 07:13:00 EST 2005


On Dec 14, 2005, at 09:20, Pantelis Antoniou wrote:

> Robin Mathew wrote:
>> Hi,
>> I was encountering a problem with the receipt of multicast packets  
>> from eth
>> interface in 8260 platform. The issue was traced to the fcc_enet.c  
>> driver. A
>> stray return in the set_multicast_list function was the culprit.
>> The following is the changes that I have made-
>> Index: fcc_enet.c
>> @@ -1488,7 +1488,6 @@
>>      cep = (struct fcc_enet_private *)dev->priv;
>> -return;
>>      /* Get pointer to FCC area in parameter RAM.
>>      */
>>      ep = (fcc_enet_t *)dev->base_addr;
>> Can you please tell me whether there is any issue with setting the  
>> driver in
>> multicast or promiscous mode. Was this change deliberately done or  
>> is it
>> really a bug?
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Robin
>
> Robin, what's the kernel version you're using?
>
> If you're using 2.6 there's a brand new driver you can use.


Has 8260 platform support been pushed out yet?






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