From: Francesco Ruggeri Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 15:29:24 +0000 (+0000) Subject: e1000: unset IFF_UNICAST_FLT on WMware 82545EM X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a22bb0b9b9b09b4cc711f6d577679773e074dde9;p=linux-beck.git e1000: unset IFF_UNICAST_FLT on WMware 82545EM VMWare's e1000 implementation does not seem to support unicast filtering. This can be observed by configuring a macvlan interface on eth0 in a VM in VMWare Fusion 5.0.5, and trying to use that interface instead of eth0. Tested on 3.16. Signed-off-by: Francesco Ruggeri Tested-by: Aaron Brown Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c index 5f6aded512f5..24f3986cfae2 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c @@ -1075,7 +1075,10 @@ static int e1000_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG); - netdev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT; + /* Do not set IFF_UNICAST_FLT for VMWare's 82545EM */ + if (hw->device_id != E1000_DEV_ID_82545EM_COPPER || + hw->subsystem_vendor_id != PCI_VENDOR_ID_VMWARE) + netdev->priv_flags |= IFF_UNICAST_FLT; adapter->en_mng_pt = e1000_enable_mng_pass_thru(hw);