[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "net: qca_spi: Don't clear IFF_BROADCAST" has been added to the 3.19.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    net: qca_spi: Don't clear IFF_BROADCAST

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt17.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren at i2se.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 19:23:23 +0000
Subject: net: qca_spi: Don't clear IFF_BROADCAST

commit 2b70bad23c89b121a3e4a00f8968d14ebb78887d upstream.

Currently qcaspi_netdev_setup accidentally clears IFF_BROADCAST.
So fix this by keeping the flags from ether_setup.

Reported-by: Michael Heimpold <michael.heimpold at i2se.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Wahren <stefan.wahren at i2se.com>
Fixes: 291ab06ecf67 (net: qualcomm: new Ethernet over SPI driver for QCA7000)
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c
index 127a35a..fd6a614 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qualcomm/qca_spi.c
@@ -812,7 +812,6 @@ qcaspi_netdev_setup(struct net_device *dev)
 	dev->netdev_ops = &qcaspi_netdev_ops;
 	qcaspi_set_ethtool_ops(dev);
 	dev->watchdog_timeo = QCASPI_TX_TIMEOUT;
-	dev->flags = IFF_MULTICAST;
 	dev->tx_queue_len = 100;

 	qca = netdev_priv(dev);
--
2.7.0