netdev - Re: [PATCH] vlan: propagate gso_min

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Date:	Wed, 23 Mar 2016 14:25:56 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	yanhaishuang@...s.chinamobile.com, kaber@...sh.net,
	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vlan: propagate gso_min_segs

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 19:33:52 -0700

> On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 09:35 +0800, Haishuang Yan wrote:
>> vlan drivers lack proper propagation of gso_min_segs from lower device.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@...s.chinamobile.com>
>> ---
> 
> The plan was to get rid of gso_min_segs, as nothing uses it.
> 
> Otherwise I would have included this in my recent patches...
> 
> For such a rare 'issue' , we believe ndo_features_check() is better,
> because it does not slow down the fast path.

I'm not aplpying this.