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authorAdam Baker <linux@baker-net.org.uk>2008-03-09 22:40:40 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2008-03-11 15:13:40 -0400
commitfbb0a27a8ad56f822f479ee85446d9c29483a3d1 (patch)
treeedd84e6063c63225e4c7a10f43718a9da473aa8a
parent5f0547c2813d4677908fa6de02f9911d25996515 (diff)
rt2x00: never disable multicast because it disables broadcast too
On rt73 and rt61 disabling reception of multicast packets also disables broadcast traffic which we never want to do. Therefore we should never disable multicast. Signed-off-by: Adam Baker <linux@baker-net.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c4
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c4
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
index e808db98f2f..93ea212fedd 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt61pci.c
@@ -2302,9 +2302,9 @@ static void rt61pci_configure_filter(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
* Apply some rules to the filters:
* - Some filters imply different filters to be set.
* - Some things we can't filter out at all.
+ * - Multicast filter seems to kill broadcast traffic so never use it.
*/
- if (mc_count)
- *total_flags |= FIF_ALLMULTI;
+ *total_flags |= FIF_ALLMULTI;
if (*total_flags & FIF_OTHER_BSS ||
*total_flags & FIF_PROMISC_IN_BSS)
*total_flags |= FIF_PROMISC_IN_BSS | FIF_OTHER_BSS;
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c
index 4fac2d414d8..2917700a254 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c
@@ -1869,9 +1869,9 @@ static void rt73usb_configure_filter(struct ieee80211_hw *hw,
* Apply some rules to the filters:
* - Some filters imply different filters to be set.
* - Some things we can't filter out at all.
+ * - Multicast filter seems to kill broadcast traffic so never use it.
*/
- if (mc_count)
- *total_flags |= FIF_ALLMULTI;
+ *total_flags |= FIF_ALLMULTI;
if (*total_flags & FIF_OTHER_BSS ||
*total_flags & FIF_PROMISC_IN_BSS)
*total_flags |= FIF_PROMISC_IN_BSS | FIF_OTHER_BSS;