On Sun, Feb 17, 2019 at 7:16 PM Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 02:23:56PM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote: > >From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@xxxxxxxx> > > > >commit 6db6f0eae6052b70885562e1733896647ec1d807 upstream. > > > >Implements an optional, per bridge port flag and feature to deliver > >multicast packets to any host on the according port via unicast > >individually. This is done by copying the packet per host and > >changing the multicast destination MAC to a unicast one accordingly. > > > >multicast-to-unicast works on top of the multicast snooping feature of > >the bridge. Which means unicast copies are only delivered to hosts which > >are interested in it and signalized this via IGMP/MLD reports > >previously. > > > >This feature is intended for interface types which have a more reliable > >and/or efficient way to deliver unicast packets than broadcast ones > >(e.g. wifi). (...) > This looks like a new feature rather than a fix, why does it need to go > to -stable? Yeah :/ I'm not very good with networking stuff and it shows. I percieved it as something else when I picked it out, now I see that it requires a flag set on the bridge which is not gonna be done without some other changes setting it. Let's drop it. Thanks, Linus Walleij
