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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Peter Warasin <peter@endian.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC, VLAN]: Propagate selected feature bits to VLAN devices
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 15:48:23 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080520144822.GR28241@solarflare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4832E223.7020206@trash.net>

Patrick McHardy wrote:
> diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> index b11e6e1..3be4559 100644
> --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
> +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
> @@ -514,10 +514,11 @@ struct net_device
>  #define NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL	8192	/* Does not change network namespaces */
>  #define NETIF_F_MULTI_QUEUE	16384	/* Has multiple TX/RX queues */
>  #define NETIF_F_LRO		32768	/* large receive offload */
> +#define NETIF_F_VLAN_TSO	65536	/* Supports TSO for VLANs */
> 
>  	/* Segmentation offload features */
> -#define NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT	16
> -#define NETIF_F_GSO_MASK	0xffff0000
> +#define NETIF_F_GSO_SHIFT	20
> +#define NETIF_F_GSO_MASK	0xfff00000

I really don't think it's a good idea to move around existing flags.  How
about stealing some of the unused high-order bits of NETIF_F_GSO_MASK
instead?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-05-20 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-20 14:37 [RFC, VLAN]: Propagate selected feature bits to VLAN devices Patrick McHardy
2008-05-20 14:38 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-20 14:48 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2008-05-20 14:51   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-20 15:46     ` Ben Greear
2008-05-20 16:20       ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-20 16:27         ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-20 16:28         ` Ben Greear
2008-05-20 17:22           ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-05-20 17:23             ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-20 18:05 ` Ben Hutchings
2008-05-20 18:31   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-20 19:58     ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-05-20 23:59       ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-20 21:55     ` David Miller
2008-05-20 23:58       ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-21 15:49 ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-21 16:28   ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-21 23:39     ` Herbert Xu
2008-05-22 17:47       ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-05-22 18:03         ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-22 18:18           ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2008-05-22 18:25             ` Patrick McHardy
2008-05-22 18:57               ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P

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