Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: multicast to unicast

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Tue Jan 10 2017 - 05:56:17 EST


On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 05:18 +0100, Linus LÃssing wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 01:30:32PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > I wonder if MAC80211 should be doing IGMP snooping and not bridge
> > in this environment.
>
> In the long term, yes. For now, not quite sure.

There's no "for now" in the kernel. Code added now will have to be
maintained essentially forever.

johannes