Subject: Re: [PATCH] zd1211rw: Support for multicast addresses

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 17:50:36 -0800

On Fri,  1 Dec 2006 00:58:07 +0000 (GMT)
Daniel Drake <[email-masked]> wrote:

> From: Ulrich Kunitz <[email-masked]>
> 
> Support for multicast adresses is implemented by supporting the
> set_multicast_list() function of the network device. Address
> filtering is supported by a group hash table in the device.
> 
> This is based on earlier work by Benoit Papillaut. Fixes multicast packet
> reception and ipv6 connectivity:
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7424
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7425
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <[email-masked]>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <[email-masked]>

Why all the trouble do it off work queue? Is someone calling
set_multicast_list with IRQ's disabled?