[PATCH 10/24] staging: wilc1000: move wilc_multicast_mac_addr_list to 'wilc_vif' struct

Adham Abozaeid adham.abozaeid at microchip.com
Sat Aug 25 00:32:46 UTC 2018


On Fri, 24 Aug 2018 11:47:14 +0300
Claudiu Beznea <Claudiu.Beznea at microchip.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On 23.08.2018 13:00, Ajay Singh wrote:
> > Unless ndo_set_rx_mode() gets called quickly I don't think there is any
> > issue here. 
> 
> I don't agree with this.

It would be safer that the mcast list be passed to wilc_setup_multicast_filter()
to be copied to the msg structure then handled by the worker thread.
In this case vif->mc_mac_addr_list can be removed all together.


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