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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
Cc: "'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"'devel@driverdev.osuosl.org'" <devel@driverdev.osuosl.org>,
	"'virtualization@lists.osdl.org'" <virtualization@lists.osdl.org>,
	"'gregkh@suse.de'" <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] staging: hv: Fix missing functions for net_device_ops (resubmit)
Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 18:30:14 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100803013013.GC3814@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1FB5E1D5CA062146B38059374562DF7280E8556B@TK5EX14MBXC121.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>

On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 05:46:01PM +0000, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> 
> Subject: staging: hv: Fix missing functions for net_device_ops
>   Unlike in older kernels, ether_setup() no longer sets default

Why put the subject in the body of the email?  This forces me to edit it
again :(

> functions. We need to put them into net_device_ops. For example,
> eth_change_mtu prevents setting MTU beyond 1500. This is necessary
> because we don't support jumbo frame at this time.

What does this mean?  Is it a bug?  Just not going as fast as possible?
Something else?

>   It affects kernel 2.6.32 and later, which are all versions
> containing Hyper-V drivers.

So is this fixing a bug that needs to be backported to these older
kernels (i.e. the staging tree?)  Is this something that is causing
people problems?

Third time's a charm?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2010-08-03  1:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-08-02 17:46 [PATCH 1/1] staging: hv: Fix missing functions for net_device_ops (resubmit) Haiyang Zhang
2010-08-03  1:30 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-08-03 18:21   ` Haiyang Zhang
2010-08-03 18:43     ` Greg KH

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