Re: [PATCH 1/1] TX throttling bug-fixing patch of AX88179_178A

Grant Grundler
2013-07-24T02:29:13Z

On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 4:46 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
...
> A quick scan shows that smsc75xx, smsc95xx, and ax88179_178a all have
> this problem.
>
> Instead of the patch starting this thread, I'd like to see one that
> hits all three drivers and removes all SG and TSO features bits from
> both the ->features _and_ ->hw_features settings.

Since you are asking to remove TSO, do you also want skb_linearize()
calls in ax88179_178a.c and smsc75xx.c removed as well?

Not part of the original patch - but based on this thread, Eric seems
to think calling skb_linearize isn't necessary or helpful either.

cheers,
grant