net: introduce IFF_UNICAST_FLT private flag

Use IFF_UNICAST_FTL to find out if driver handles unicast address
filtering. In case it does not, promisc mode is entered.

Patch also fixes following drivers:
stmmac, niu: support uc filtering and yet it propagated
	ndo_set_multicast_list
bna, benet, pxa168_eth, ks8851, ks8851_mll, ksz884x : has set
	ndo_set_rx_mode but do not support uc filtering

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This commit is contained in:
Jiri Pirko
2011-08-16 06:29:00 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent d03462b999
commit 01789349ee
17 changed files with 51 additions and 12 deletions

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@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
#include <linux/pci.h>
#include <linux/netdevice.h>
#include <linux/etherdevice.h>
#include <linux/if.h>
#include <linux/if_ether.h>
#include <linux/if_vlan.h>
#include <linux/ethtool.h>
@@ -2442,6 +2443,8 @@ static int __devinit enic_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev,
if (using_dac)
netdev->features |= NETIF_F_HIGHDMA;
netdev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT;
err = register_netdev(netdev);
if (err) {
dev_err(dev, "Cannot register net device, aborting\n");