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From: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/bridge: use the maximum hard_header_len of ports for
	bridging device
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:05:20 +0800
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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:40 PM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wro=
te:
> From: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
> Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:04:29 +0800
>
>> The bridging device used a constant hard_header_len. =C2=A0This will=
 cause
>> headroom shortage for ports with additional hardware header. =C2=A0T=
he patch
>> makes bridging device to use the maximum value of all ports.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
>
> Your driver must be able to cope with any amount of
> available headroom, no matter what hacks we put into
> the bridging layer.
>
> Please fix your driver, I'm not applying this patch.

Ok.  But it's not good to reallocate every packet generated locally.
Why not take this patch too?

- Leo