Re: Multicast filter read/write mismap

Paul Gortmaker (linux@rasty.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Sun, 24 May 1998 14:33:35 +1000 (EST)


>
> Since about 2.0.101, I've been seeing messages of the form:
>
> May 10 17:33:40 lorentz kernel: Multicast filter read/write mismap 0

[...]

> Like the previous poster, I haven't found anything in the docs which
> appears to explain why the messages occur and whether I should be
> concerned.

It is a bug in the SMC 83c690 (wd80x3E/SMC-Elite) chip's implementation
of the 8390 multicast registers. Ignore the messages for the time being,
as they should be gone when 104 is released.

For more details, look up the follow-up to PR#2 in the "done" list on

http://samba.anu.edu.au/linux-patches

Paul.

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