netdev - Re: [PATCH net 0/2] r8169: Be drop monitor friendly

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Date:   Fri, 25 Aug 2017 19:13:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     f.fainelli@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nic_swsd@...ltek.com, romieu@...zoreil.com,
        edumazet@...il.com, alexander.h.duyck@...el.com,
        sgruszka@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/2] r8169: Be drop monitor friendly

From: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 18:33:57 -0700

> First patch may be questionable but no other driver appears to be doing that
> and while it is defendable to account for left packets as dropped during TX
> clean, this appears misleadning. I picked Stanislaw changes which brings us
> back to 2010, but this was present from pre-git days as well.

Right, drivers should not do this.

> Second patch fixes the two missing calls to dev_consume_skb_any().

Series applied, thanks.