[Acked] [SRU][saucy][PATCH] net: calxedaxgmac: add mac address learning

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Tue Nov 19 16:59:41 UTC 2013


On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 04:01:59PM -0600, Rob Herring wrote:
> From: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>
> 
> The Calxeda xgmac must learn secondary mac addresses such as those
> behind a bridge in order to properly receive packets with those mac
> addresses. Add mac address learning on transmit with timestamping of
> entries. The mac addresses are added to the driver's unicast address
> list, so they are visible to user via "bridge fdb show" command.
> 
> Addresses can get disabled when the AE bit is cleared, so address
> registers must be checked for possible removal and update the unicast
> list.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring <rob.herring at calxeda.com>

This looks to fix the issues I had with the previous version.
Therefore:

    Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw at canonical.com>

-apw




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