netdev - RE: [RFC, VLAN]: Propagate selected feature bits to VLAN devices

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Date:	Tue, 20 May 2008 10:22:43 -0700
From:	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
To:	"Ben Greear" <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	"Ben Hutchings" <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	"Patrick McHardy" <kaber@...sh.net>,
	"Linux Netdev List" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC, VLAN]: Propagate selected feature bits to VLAN devices

> 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.

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

Cheers,
-PJ Waskiewicz
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