netdev - Re: macvlan: fix gso_max

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Date:	Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:08:17 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: macvlan: fix gso_max_size setting

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 11:33:05PM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
> Perhaps we should simply fall back to software in that case.
> Compile tested only.

Sure.

Since ixgbe appears to be the only driver in our entire tree
that has this limitation, I think it might make more sense to
move this special-case check into it and get it to do software
GSO just like tg3 does for a few other cases that the hardware
can't handle.

Cheers,
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