[Bridge] net: bridge: multicast: Renaming of flag BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING

Stephen Hemminger stephen at networkplumber.org
Mon Jun 7 16:59:13 UTC 2021


On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 21:29:34 +0530
Ujjal Roy <royujjal at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Stephen,
> 
> Can we rename this flag BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING into something like
> BRIDGE_MULTICAST_SNOOPING/BRIDGE_MCAST_SNOOPING? I am starting this
> thread because this BRIDGE_IGMP_SNOOPING flag holds information about
> IGMP only but not about MLD. Or this is not a common name to describe
> both IGMP and MLD. Please let me know about my concern, so that I can
> change the code and submit a patch.
> 
> Thanks,
> UjjaL Roy

It is part of user API at this point so not possible to remove old definition.


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