Subject: [PATCH RESEND 1/7] net: arcnet: com20020: remove misleading references to multicast

From: Ethan Nelson-Moore <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 17 May 2026 18:07:21 -0700

ARCnet does not support multicast, only unicast and broadcast. In spite
of this, the com20020 driver contains several references to multicast
in a comment and a function name, including a FIXME that it should be
implemented. Adjust the comment to make the lack of multicast support
clear and rename com20020_set_mc_list to com20020_set_rx_mode.

Signed-off-by: Ethan Nelson-Moore <[email-masked]>
---
 drivers/net/arcnet/com20020.c | 14 ++++----------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/arcnet/com20020.c b/drivers/net/arcnet/com20020.c
index b8526805ffac..f2fa26626a06 100644
--- a/drivers/net/arcnet/com20020.c
+++ b/drivers/net/arcnet/com20020.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ static void com20020_copy_to_card(struct net_device *dev, int bufnum,
 				  int offset, void *buf, int count);
 static void com20020_copy_from_card(struct net_device *dev, int bufnum,
 				    int offset, void *buf, int count);
-static void com20020_set_mc_list(struct net_device *dev);
+static void com20020_set_rx_mode(struct net_device *dev);
 static void com20020_close(struct net_device *);
 
 static void com20020_copy_from_card(struct net_device *dev, int bufnum,
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ const struct net_device_ops com20020_netdev_ops = {
 	.ndo_start_xmit = arcnet_send_packet,
 	.ndo_tx_timeout = arcnet_timeout,
 	.ndo_set_mac_address = com20020_set_hwaddr,
-	.ndo_set_rx_mode = com20020_set_mc_list,
+	.ndo_set_rx_mode = com20020_set_rx_mode,
 };
 
 /* Set up the struct net_device associated with this card.  Called after
@@ -362,14 +362,8 @@ static void com20020_close(struct net_device *dev)
 	arcnet_outb(lp->config, ioaddr, COM20020_REG_W_CONFIG);
 }
 
-/* Set or clear the multicast filter for this adaptor.
- * num_addrs == -1    Promiscuous mode, receive all packets
- * num_addrs == 0       Normal mode, clear multicast list
- * num_addrs > 0        Multicast mode, receive normal and MC packets, and do
- *                      best-effort filtering.
- *      FIXME - do multicast stuff, not just promiscuous.
- */
-static void com20020_set_mc_list(struct net_device *dev)
+/* ARCnet does not support multicast, only unicast and broadcast */
+static void com20020_set_rx_mode(struct net_device *dev)
 {
 	struct arcnet_local *lp = netdev_priv(dev);
 	int ioaddr = dev->base_addr;
-- 
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