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

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Date:	Mon, 30 May 2011 20:06:40 -0400
From:	Neil Horman <nhorman@...driver.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.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 Sat, May 28, 2011 at 04:11:03AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> 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.
> 
Copy that, thanks Ben.
Neil

> -- 
> Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare
> Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job.
> They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.
> 
> 
> 
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