Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/8] ipv6: Check return of dev_set_allmulti

From: Wang Chen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:01:43 +0800

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 said the following on 2008-6-24 11:52:
> In article <[email-masked]> (at Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:55:23 +0800), Wang Chen <[email-masked]> says:
> 
>> allmulti might overflow.
>> Commit: "netdevice: Fix promiscuity and allmulti overflow" in net-next makes
>> dev_set_promiscuity/allmulti return error number if overflow happened.
>>
>> Here, we check the positive increment for allmulti to get error return.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Wang Chen <[email-masked]>
> 
> The comment is too obvious to have.
> 

It's just explain the background of this series of fix.