netdev - Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: make dev_disable_lro use physical device if passed a vlan dev (v2)

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Date:	Sat, 28 May 2011 04:11:03 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] net: make dev_disable_lro use physical device if
 passed a vlan dev (v2)

On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 14:31 -0400, Neil Horman wrote:
> If the device passed into dev_disable_lro is a vlan, then repoint the dev
> poniter so that we actually modify the underlying physical device.
[...]

Thanks Neil, this looks good.

There seems to be a slightly weird bug remaining, in that NETIF_F_LRO
may remain set on the VLAN device.  But that's really cosmetic and
should go away in 2.6.40 along with the old ethtool operations for
offload setting.

Ben.

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