netdev - Re: [PATCH] bridge: inherit slave devices needed

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Date:	Thu, 29 Aug 2013 15:17:30 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, stephen@...workplumber.org,
	vyasevic@...hat.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bridge: inherit slave devices needed_headroom

From: "Florian Fainelli" <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 12:03:53 +0100

> Some slave devices may have set a dev->needed_headroom value which is
> different than the default one, most likely in order to prepend a
> hardware descriptor in front of the Ethernet frame to send. Whenever a
> new slave is added to a bridge, ensure that we update the
> needed_headroom value accordingly to account for the slave
> needed_headroom value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>

Since this is a performance optimization I've applied this to net-next.

Thanks!
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