staging: hv: add explanation of no-op set_multicast_list

I was going to remove netvsc_set_multicast_list() so I think it is worth
adding a comment since it isn't immediately clear why you would want
this.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>
Acked-by: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
index 141535295a41020b7905767edad69d4156f2b143..f527e5f24f56b79cabee3cc5fd551b115bcddff9 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -66,6 +66,9 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(ring_size, "Ring buffer size (# of pages)");
 /* The one and only one */
 static struct netvsc_driver_context g_netvsc_drv;
 
+/* no-op so the netdev core doesn't return -EINVAL when modifying the the
+ * multicast address list in SIOCADDMULTI. hv is setup to get all multicast
+ * when it calls RndisFilterOnOpen() */
 static void netvsc_set_multicast_list(struct net_device *net)
 {
 }