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

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Date:	Thu, 22 May 2008 11:57:43 -0700
From:	"Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P" <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@...el.com>
To:	"Patrick McHardy" <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	"Herbert Xu" <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [RFC, VLAN]: Propagate selected feature bits to VLAN devices

> The idea is simply to replace the NETIF_F_VLAN_TSO and 
> checksumming flag by a flag mask that specifies the features 
> that may be propagated to the VLAN devices.
> 
> The change to your driver will most likely be something like:
> 
> - dev->features |= NETIF_F_VLAN_TSO | ...
> + dev->vlan_features |= NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_TSO6 | 
> NETIF_F_CSUM_ALL | ...
> 
> I'll send the patch tommorrow, I'm currently busy with other things.

Ok.  That sounds great.  Thanks Patrick.

-PJ Waskiewicz
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