netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 0/4] fixup IFF_NO

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Date:	Tue, 1 Sep 2015 09:52:41 +0200
From:	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	Phil Sutter <phil@....cc>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>, brouer@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 0/4] fixup IFF_NO_QUEUE conversion

On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 2:15 AM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>> This series serves two purposes:
>>
>> On one hand it fixes a quite embarrassing bug around the warning I added for
>> drivers still setting tx_queue_len = 0 to achieve noqueue operation. It turned
>> out to be quite useless as due to using alloc_netdev(), many in-kernel drivers
>> fell into the trap by accident, as well. Instead this place serves pretty well
>> as a sanitizing point to set IFF_NO_QUEUE for drivers not initializing
>> tx_queue_len, which in turn allows to drop all special treatment of the latter
>> being zero since that can not happen anymore without IFF_NO_QUEUE being set.
>>
>> On the other hand, it provides a better solution for Eric Dumazet's concern
>> regarding how to assign noqueue to an interface which does not default to it
>> already. In order to make this possible, noqueue is being registered so users
>> can 'tc qd add dev eth0 root noqueue'. In addition, it resolves the ugly
>> situation of 'tc qd show' not showing noqueue. Finally, the former changes
>> allow for some code cleanup.
>
> Seems reasonable, series applied, thanks Phil.

Thanks, the warning is gone.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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