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Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:31:41 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, ajones@...erbed.com, shemminger@...tta.com, alexander.h.duyck@...el.com Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 3/3] e1000e: allow tx of pre-formatted vlan tagged packets From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:13:08 -0700 > From: Arthur Jones <ajones@...erbed.com> > > As with igb, when the e1000e driver is fed 802.1q > packets with hardware checksum on, it chokes with an > error of the form: > > checksum_partial proto=81! > > As the logic there was not smart enough to look into > the vlan header to pick out the encapsulated protocol. > > There are times when we'd like to send these packets > out without having to configure a vlan on the interface. > Here we check for the vlan tag and allow the packet to > go out wiht the correct hardware checksum. > > Thanks to Kand Ly <kand@...erbed.com> for discovering the > issue and the coming up with a solution. This patch is > based upon his work. > > Fixups from Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> and > Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com> > > Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@...erbed.com> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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