From: Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 17:08:18 -0700
> Anyone know the reasoning for masking out the PROMISC flag > in dev_get_flags() ? Because promiscuous status is a counter, not a binary on-off state. You can't expect to just clear it and expect all the other promiscuous users to just "go away" and be ok with the device leaving promiscuous mode. Since you can't sanely "set" it, we don't provide it either. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
