This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: qca_spi: Don't clear IFF_BROADCAST
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-qca_spi-don-t-clear-iff_broadcast.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Sat Apr 16 10:02:52 PDT 2016
From: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:23:23 +0000
Subject: net: qca_spi: Don't clear IFF_BROADCAST
From: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 2b70bad23c89b121a3e4a00f8968d14ebb78887d ]
Currently qcaspi_netdev_setup accidentally clears IFF_BROADCAST.
So fix this by keeping the flags from ether_setup.
Reported-by: Michael Heimpold <michael.heimpold@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 291ab06ecf67 (net: qualcomm: new Ethernet over SPI driver for QCA7000)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c | 1 -
1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c
@@ -811,7 +811,6 @@ qcaspi_netdev_setup(struct net_device *d
dev->netdev_ops = &qcaspi_netdev_ops;
qcaspi_set_ethtool_ops(dev);
dev->watchdog_timeo = QCASPI_TX_TIMEOUT;
- dev->flags = IFF_MULTICAST;
dev->tx_queue_len = 100;
qca = netdev_priv(dev);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from stefan.wahren@xxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/net-qca_spi-don-t-clear-iff_broadcast.patch
queue-4.4/net-qca_spi-clear-iff_tx_skb_sharing.patch
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