Re: [PATCH 1/4] tun: Interface to query tun/tap features.

[Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>]

Rusty Russell wrote:
> The problem with introducing checksum offload and gso to tun is they
> need to set dev->features to enable GSO and/or checksumming, which is
> supposed to be done before register_netdevice(), ie. as part of
> TUNSETIFF.
> 
> Unfortunately, TUNSETIFF has always just ignored flags it doesn't
> understand, so there's no good way of detecting whether the kernel
> supports new IFF_ flags.
> 
> This patch implements a TUNGETFEATURES ioctl which returns all the valid IFF
> flags.  It could be extended later to include other features.

<snip>

Looks good.

Dave, do you want me to put all outstanding TUN patches into a git tree so
that you can pull them in one shot ?
Otherwise if you're ok with applying them one by one please apply this one.

Acked-by: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>