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authorfenner <fenner@FreeBSD.org>1997-10-27 00:02:33 +0000
committerfenner <fenner@FreeBSD.org>1997-10-27 00:02:33 +0000
commit44ca631cf406ee4685243cf4c1639a2181547ee0 (patch)
tree2d8a7fd585a238058f7ef36bde8103a7c097b6e1 /sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c
parentfa55951ed537b4c4f68482e66fc7123eab0cf3fc (diff)
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Fix a comment about multicast; since the Etherlink III has no
multicast filter the driver will never learn how to program it.
Diffstat (limited to 'sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c')
-rw-r--r--sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c b/sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c
index e5db617..90f1f2e 100644
--- a/sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c
+++ b/sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
*/
/*
- * $Id: if_ep.c,v 1.63 1997/10/26 04:53:53 nate Exp $
+ * $Id: if_ep.c,v 1.64 1997/10/26 21:08:40 nate Exp $
*
* Promiscuous mode added and interrupt logic slightly changed
* to reduce the number of adapter failures. Transceiver select
@@ -1301,9 +1301,12 @@ epioctl(ifp, cmd, data)
break;
case SIOCADDMULTI:
case SIOCDELMULTI:
- /* Now this driver has no support for programmable
- * multicast filters. If some day it will gain this
- * support this part of code must be extended.
+ /*
+ * The Etherlink III has no programmable multicast
+ * filter. We always initialize the card to be
+ * promiscuous to multicast, since we're always a
+ * member of the ALL-SYSTEMS group, so there's no
+ * need to process SIOC*MULTI requests.
*/
error = 0;
break;
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