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From: "Michał Mirosław" <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: pekkas@netcore.fi, eric.dumazet@gmail.com,
	yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, jmorris@namei.org,
	bhutchings@solarflare.com, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru,
	therbert@google.com
Subject: Re: [Bridge] [RFC PATCH] net: fold dev_disable_lro() into netdev_fix_features()
Date: Thu, 12 May 2011 18:06:21 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110512160621.GA6588@rere.qmqm.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110509.120811.246541047.davem@davemloft.net>

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 12:08:11PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
> Date: Sat,  7 May 2011 13:48:02 +0200 (CEST)
> > This moves checks that device is forwarding from bridge, IPv4 and IPv6
> > code into netdev_fix_features(). As a side effect, after device is no longer
> > forwarding it gets LRO back. This also means that user is not allowed to
> > enable LRO after device is put to forwarding mode.
> We need to keep the check in the protocols because we don't want to
> be testing protocol specific device state in generic code like
> net/core/dev.c

I modified it to use priv_flags that mirror the protocol-internal state.
Patch follows.

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-12 16:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-07 11:48 [Bridge] [RFC PATCH] net: fold dev_disable_lro() into netdev_fix_features() Michał Mirosław
2011-05-09 19:08 ` David Miller
2011-05-12 16:06   ` Michał Mirosław [this message]
2011-05-12 16:06 ` [Bridge] [RFC PATCH v2] " Michał Mirosław
2011-05-12 16:29   ` Ben Hutchings
2011-05-12 16:35     ` Michał Mirosław
2011-05-12 16:57     ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-05-12 16:37   ` [Bridge] [RFC PATCH v3] " Michał Mirosław

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