netdev - Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm3: fix e1000 compilation

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Message-Id: <20070330.142025.02298139.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:20:25 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, adobriyan@...ru,
	randy.dunlap@...cle.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.21-rc5-mm3: fix e1000 compilation

From: "Kok, Auke" <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 10:27:50 -0700

> turns out that NETIF_F_TSO6 is defined even if CONFIG_IPV6 is turned
> off, which is what broke e1000. That in itself might be a
> problem. Perhaps this should be fixed in netdevice.h (gratuitous bad
> inline patch below) but I'm not sure if people would appreciate
> this, as it's rather ugly, and it gets all horrible when people
> disable TCP protocol support...

No, I don't think we should do this.

We have the vlan acceleration flags available when 802.1Q is
disabled, same situation, and just as valid.
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