From: John Fastabend Date: Sun, 15 Apr 2012 06:44:25 +0000 (+0000) Subject: ixgbe: allow RAR table to be updated in promisc mode X-Git-Tag: Ubuntu-5.2.0-15.16~17975^2~434 X-Git-Url: https://git.proxmox.com/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9dcb373c55c422f6c827b1a63c1be9b318a37151;p=mirror_ubuntu-eoan-kernel.git ixgbe: allow RAR table to be updated in promisc mode This allows RAR table updates while in promiscuous. With SR-IOV enabled it is valuable to allow the RAR table to be updated even when in promisc mode to configure forwarding Signed-off-by: John Fastabend Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c index 8b373951f644..25a7ed917a30 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c @@ -3462,16 +3462,17 @@ void ixgbe_set_rx_mode(struct net_device *netdev) } ixgbe_vlan_filter_enable(adapter); hw->addr_ctrl.user_set_promisc = false; - /* - * Write addresses to available RAR registers, if there is not - * sufficient space to store all the addresses then enable - * unicast promiscuous mode - */ - count = ixgbe_write_uc_addr_list(netdev); - if (count < 0) { - fctrl |= IXGBE_FCTRL_UPE; - vmolr |= IXGBE_VMOLR_ROPE; - } + } + + /* + * Write addresses to available RAR registers, if there is not + * sufficient space to store all the addresses then enable + * unicast promiscuous mode + */ + count = ixgbe_write_uc_addr_list(netdev); + if (count < 0) { + fctrl |= IXGBE_FCTRL_UPE; + vmolr |= IXGBE_VMOLR_ROPE; } if (adapter->num_vfs) {