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Date:	Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:07:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Fix dev dev_ethtool_get_rx_csum() for forced
 NETIF_F_RXCSUM

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Mon, 04 Apr 2011 15:54:40 +0100

> On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 16:14 +0200, Michaİİ Mirosİİaw wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 01, 2011 at 08:23:35PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> > From: Michaİİ Mirosİİaw <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
>> > Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 11:58:08 +0200 (CEST)
>> > > dev_ethtool_get_rx_csum() won't report rx checksumming when it's not
>> > > changeable and driver is converted to hw_features and friends. Fix this.
>> > > 
>> > > (dev->hw_features & NETIF_F_RXCSUM) check is dropped - if the
>> > > ethtool_ops->get_rx_csum is set, then driver is not coverted, yet.
>> > > 
>> > > Signed-off-by: Michaİİ Mirosİİaw <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
>> > Applied, thanks.
>> 
>> I noticed this didn't get into your net-next tree (it's only in net).
>> This impacts the hw_features conversions that are in net-next.
>> 
>> BTW, what's the policy for this kind of patches? I send them relative
>> to net-next normally and note if this is also for -rc/stable - is this
>> The Good Way(tm)?
> 
> If you want a change to be included in the upcoming release, it must be
> applied initially to net-2.6; therefore it must be based on net-2.6.
> 
> David will periodically merge net-2.6 into net-next-2.6.  You can
> probably do a test merge yourself if you want to see what the result
> will be.

I've just merged net-2.6 into net-next-2.6, so anything which exists in
net-2.6 will show up in net-next-2.6 now too.
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