From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 01:52:02 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: [NET]: dev_mcast: add multicast list synchronization helpers
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.23-rc1~1054^2~30
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[NET]: dev_mcast: add multicast list synchronization helpers

The method drivers currently use to synchronize multicast lists is not
very pretty:

- walk the multicast list
- search each entry on a copy of the previous list
- if new add to lower device
- walk the copy of the previous list
- search each entry on the current list
- if removed delete from lower device
- copy entire list

This patch adds a new field to struct dev_addr_list to store the
synchronization state and adds two helper functions for synchronization
and cleanup.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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