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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC, VLAN]: Propagate selected feature bits to VLAN devices
Date: Tue, 20 May 2008 19:23:54 +0200
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Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P wrote:
>> I guess it doesn't matter so much to me either way..so long 
>> as it is narrowed one way or another, and preferably narrowed 
>> enough to allow plenty of new flags down the road.
> 
> In addition to TSO, we also want TCP checksum offload, so we'll need at
> least one more flag.  So whatever is done to shrink the GSO bits, we'll
> need room for two new flags.

You're right of course, seems I wasn't thinking :)

> 
> The patch looks good after a visual inspection.  I'll send test results
> later today.

Thanks.