Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 09:12:23AM CEST, da...@davemloft.net wrote: >From: Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> >Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 08:36:24 +0200 > >> The promiscuity is a way to setup the rx filter. So promics == rx filter >> off. For normal nics, where there is no hw fwd datapath, >> this coincidentally means all received packets go to cpu. > >You cannot convince me that the HW datapath isn't a "rx filter" too, sorry.
If you look at it that way, then we have 2: rx_filter and hw_rx_filter. The point is, those 2 are not one item, that is the point I'm trying to make :/
