From: Mike Manning <mmann...@brocade.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 14:48:09 +0100
> Support for l2 multicast flood control was added in commit b6cb5ac8331b
> ("net: bridge: add per-port multicast flood flag"). It allows broadcast
> as it was introduced specifically for unknown multicast flood control.
> But as broadcast is a special case of multicast, this may also need to
> be disabled. For this purpose, introduce a flag to disable the flooding
> of received l2 broadcasts. This approach is backwards compatible and
> provides flexibility in filtering for the desired packet types.
>
> Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <niko...@cumulusnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: Mike Manning <mmann...@brocade.com>
Applied, thanks for following up on this.
