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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] bridge: multicast to unicast
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Linus =?ISO-8859-1?Q?L=FCssing?= <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
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        "David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 11:56:03 +0100
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On Tue, 2017-01-10 at 05:18 +0100, Linus Lüssing 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