[PATCH net-next v5 08/13] ax88179_178a: Add AX179A/AX279 multicast configuration

From: Birger Koblitz

Date: Sun Aug 02 2026 - 12:36:53 EST


Add support for conditionally setting the ip_alignement flag
AX_RX_CTL_IPE in AX_RX_CTL and make sure that AX_RX_CTL_DROPCRCERR
is also set to be consistent with the initial configuration in
ax88179_reset()

Signed-off-by: Birger Koblitz <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/usb/ax88179_lib.c | 8 ++++++--
drivers/net/usb/ax88179a_devices.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_lib.c b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_lib.c
index 9d6df9d5c61c841965e9f7fa4b1075561b7f9c50..7a8c12027b9fcf7141694952528861e986d065ad 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_lib.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179_lib.c
@@ -314,10 +314,14 @@ int ax88179_set_eeprom(struct net_device *net, struct ethtool_eeprom *eeprom, u8
void ax88179_set_multicast(struct net_device *net)
{
struct usbnet *dev = netdev_priv(net);
- struct ax88179_data *data = dev->driver_priv;
u8 *m_filter = ((u8 *)dev->data);
+ struct ax88179_data *data;
+
+ data = dev->driver_priv;

- data->rxctl = (AX_RX_CTL_START | AX_RX_CTL_AB | AX_RX_CTL_IPE);
+ data->rxctl = (AX_RX_CTL_START | AX_RX_CTL_AB | AX_RX_CTL_DROPCRCERR);
+ if (data->ip_align)
+ data->rxctl |= AX_RX_CTL_IPE;

if (net->flags & IFF_PROMISC) {
data->rxctl |= AX_RX_CTL_PRO;
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179a_devices.c b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179a_devices.c
index 213eb974b7da576bb6546532ce45716055da1de0..70d0780ae5bcd9339dc456fffacdea86a4bf39a9 100644
--- a/drivers/net/usb/ax88179a_devices.c
+++ b/drivers/net/usb/ax88179a_devices.c
@@ -596,6 +596,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops ax88179a_netdev_ops = {
.ndo_set_mac_address = ax88179_set_mac_addr,
.ndo_validate_addr = eth_validate_addr,
.ndo_eth_ioctl = usbnet_mii_ioctl,
+ .ndo_set_rx_mode = ax88179_set_multicast,
.ndo_set_features = ax88179a_set_features,
.ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid = ax88179a_vlan_rx_add_vid,
.ndo_vlan_rx_kill_vid = ax88179a_vlan_rx_kill_vid,

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2.47.3