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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. -- 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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