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From: "Michał Mirosław" <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
To: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com, devel@open-fcoe.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] vlan: fix updating wanted_features for vlan device
Date: Thu, 5 May 2011 08:51:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110505065153.GA3288@rere.qmqm.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110505004841.26691.74872.stgit@localhost6.localdomain6>

On Wed, May 04, 2011 at 05:48:42PM -0700, Yi Zou wrote:
> commit 8a0427b "vlan: convert VLAN devices to use ndo_fix_features()" converts the
> vlan to support ndo_fix_features. However, the wanted_features is not updated
> for the vlan device, causing real_dev->features not be populated to the vlan
> device when real_dev->features are changed by the driver through FEAT_CHANGE.
> This is breaking FCoE related netdev feature flags on vlan devices. Add updating
> wanted_features to vlan_transfer_features() so netdev_get_wanted_features() will
> can get the updated wanted feature flags for vlan device properly.

Can you describe the situation further? There might be problems if device
changes its vlan_features after creation of VLAN devices on top (bonding?).

dev->wanted_features is only what user wants to get and should not be changed
by anything else.

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław

  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-05  6:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-05  0:48 [PATCH] [RFC] vlan: fix updating wanted_features for vlan device Yi Zou
2011-05-05  6:51 ` Michał Mirosław [this message]
2011-05-05  7:49   ` Zou, Yi

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