netdev - Re: [RFC, VLAN]: Propagate selected feature bits to VLAN devices

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Message-ID: <20080521233952.GA27138@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Thu, 22 May 2008 07:39:52 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC, VLAN]: Propagate selected feature bits to VLAN devices

On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 06:28:26PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
> I thought about this myself, my second idea was to add a
> mask for feature bits to be propagated. Unless there is a
> need for the driver to determine them at runtime, thats
> slightly simpler. The driver would do:
> 
> dev->vlan_features = NETIF_F_CSUM_ALL | ...
> 
> What do you think about this?

Yes that sounds great!

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