From: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2020 20:36:54 +0100 > This pair of patches are the result of discovering a failure to > correctly receive IPv6 multicast packets on such a device (in particular > DHCPv6 requests and RA solicitations). Putting the device into > promiscuous mode, or allmulti, both resulted in such packets correctly > being received. Examination of the vendor driver (nss-gmac from the > qsdk) shows that it does not enable the multicast filter and instead > falls back to allmulti. > > Extend the base dwmac1000 driver to fall back when there's no suitable > hardware filter, and update the ipq806x platform to request this. Series applied, thank you.
