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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Arend Van Spriel <arend.vanspriel@broadcom.com>,
	"backports@vger.kernel.org" <backports@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: min/max mtu field in struct net_device
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 10:30:59 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1479115859.7899.3.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c4682854-87ce-5e28-d049-545f24d48cab@broadcom.com> (sfid-20161114_095807_156709_13DD77F5)

On Mon, 2016-11-14 at 09:49 +0100, Arend Van Spriel wrote:
> Just wondering. Does anyone have any ideas on how to backport the two
> patches below. The struct net_device now holds mtu range which
> network subsystem checks. For a number of drivers and mac80211 it
> means they no longer have .ndo_change_mtu callback. My guess is that
> we need patches in backport of some sort to tackle this.

Yeah, I kinda saw this coming. Since in almost all cases using the new
min/max the ndo_change_mtu was actually removed, perhaps we can come up
with a way to spatch it back in?

johannes
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-14  8:49 min/max mtu field in struct net_device Arend Van Spriel
2016-11-14  9:30 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2016-11-14 10:46   ` Arend Van Spriel
2016-11-14 13:27     ` Johannes Berg
2016-11-15  8:36     ` Fwd: " Arend Van Spriel

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