On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 03:29:36PM +0000, Ian Campbell wrote: > On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 12:50 +0000, Paul Durrant wrote: > > My patch b2700877 "move and amend multicast control documentation" > > clarified use of the multicast control protocol between frontend and > > backend. However, it transpires that the restrictions that documentation > > placed on the "request-multicast-control" flag make it hard for a > > frontend to enable 'all multicast' promiscuous mode, in that to do so > > would require the frontend and backend to disconnect and re-connect. > > > > This patch adds a new "feature-dynamic-multicast-control" flag to allow > > a backend to advertise that it will watch "request-multicast-control" hence > > allowing it to be meaningfully modified by the frontend at any time rather > > than only when the frontend and backend are disconnected. > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com> > > Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campb...@citrix.com> > > Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jack...@eu.citrix.com> > > Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> > > Cc: Keir Fraser <k...@xen.org> > > Cc: Tim Deegan <t...@xen.org> > > > This looks good to me, but also adding Wei (Linux netback + BSD stuff) and > Roger (BSD stuff) for their perspective. > > I should probably have done that for the last set of netif.h changes too, > since apart from the nominal maintainers of xen/include/public/io/*.h it's > worth getting input from the maintainers of the consumers. Not sure we can > express that very well in MAINTAINERS :-(. > > Ian.
LGTM Acked-by: Wei Liu <wei.l...@citrix.com> _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@lists.xen.org http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
