Subject: Re: Multicast ethernet question
To: Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/04/1997 21:02:45
>Christoph Badura <bad@ora.de> writes:
>Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
[snip]
>>Sounds a lot like the LANCE's address filter. I suggest you take a look
>>at how multicast it handled in sys/dev/ic/am7990.c.
>Sounds like this should be made a MI function. If I get around to writing
>the driver for this pocket ethernet adapter, I'll need the same function too.
Err, using an attribute and making that hash code chipset-independent
has already been suggested ;-). Duplicating the code once is bad
enough. Duplicating it twice?