netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] net: r8169: convert to hw

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Date:	Mon, 11 Apr 2011 21:15:13 +0200
From:	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
To:	François Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, David Dillow <dave@...dillows.org>,
	Hayes Wang <hayeswang@...ltek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net: r8169: convert to hw_features

On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 08:47:39PM +0200, François Romieu wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 03:30:29PM +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 05:45:08PM +0200, François Romieu wrote:
> [...]
> > > The description should include :
> > > - Rx VLAN tag stripping is now enabled by default
> > Actually, it was enabled by default before. NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX_RX was
> > #defined to be NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX+NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX.
> It was enabled in dev->features but it was necessary to configure at
> least one VLAN before the hardware CPlusCmd register was instructed
> to strip Rx vlan tag (let aside 8110SCd or tagged Tx packets which
> where sent as such).

Are you sure? rtl8169_vlan_mode() that configured this before was
called from rtl8169_init_one(). The change is that this logic was
merged with enabling RX csum offload in rtl8169_set_features().

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław
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