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e1000: unset IFF_UNICAST_FLT on WMware 82545EM

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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 <fruggeri@arista.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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Francesco Ruggeri 2014-10-22 15:29:24 +00:00 committed by Jeff Kirsher
parent d70127e8a9
commit a22bb0b9b9
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drivers/net/ethernet/intel/e1000/e1000_main.c
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@ -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);