Re: iwi0 "need multicast update callback"
- From: haro@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:52:43 +0900 (JST)
From: Sam Leffler <sam-at-freebsd.org>
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 11:16:34 -0700
:Scot Hetzel wrote:
:> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:09 AM, <haro@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
:>
:>> Hi list,
:>>
:>> After updating my pc today, I'm getting following message on the console.
:>> As it seems to be working ok, but is there any way to get rid of it?
:>>
:>> iwi0: need multicast update callback
:>>
:>>
:> I noticed this with the ndis driver also. I searched the code and
:> found that this is coming from the null_update_mcast function in
:> /sys/net80211/ieee802.c
:>
:> To get rid of this notification will require updating the iwi and ndis
:> drivers to seperate multicast update and promisc update into seperate
:> functions:
:>
:> ic->ic_update_mcast = null_update_mcast;
:> ic->ic_update_promisc = null_update_promisc;
:> :
:> /*
:> * Synchronize flag bit state in the parent ifnet structure
:> * according to the state of all vap ifnet's. This is used,
:> * for example, to handle IFF_PROMISC and IFF_ALLMULTI.
:> */
:> void
:> ieee80211_syncifflag_locked(struct ieee80211com *ic, int flag)
:>
:> This is to allow the ieee80211_syncifflag_locked function to update
:> the parent ifnet structure.
:>
:> Search the other wireless drivers (i.e ath) on how the conversion was made.
:>
:>
:These messages are a reminder to fill in missing functionality and can
:be somewhat ignored. It may be possible to have the default mcast
:filter handler mark the ALLMULTI flag and fallback to the 802.3 layer
:for multicast filtering but I wasn't convinced that worked right so left
:the printf reminder.
:
:Of course the right solution is to push the mcast address list to the
:device.
Thank you for the info.
I'll look into the iwi driver for what I can do about it.
Regards,
Haro
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