netdev - Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: don't set NETIF_F

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Message-Id: <1225966352.7284.5.camel@blaa>
Date:	Thu, 06 Nov 2008 10:12:32 +0000
From:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
To:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
Cc:	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: don't set NETIF_F_FRAGLIST

On Thu, 2008-11-06 at 00:43 -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > We don't handle skb_shared_info->frag_list, so we shouldn't
> > be setting the NETIF_F_FRAGLIST flag.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/virtio_net.c |    2 +-
> >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > index 0196a0d..9d4fdad 100644
> > --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
> > @@ -505,7 +505,7 @@ static int virtnet_probe(struct virtio_device *vdev)
> >  	/* Do we support "hardware" checksums? */
> >  	if (csum && virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_CSUM)) {
> >  		/* This opens up the world of extra features. */
> > -		dev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM|NETIF_F_SG|NETIF_F_FRAGLIST;
> > +		dev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_CSUM|NETIF_F_SG;
> >  		if (gso && virtio_has_feature(vdev, VIRTIO_NET_F_GSO)) {
> >  			dev->features |= NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_UFO
> >  				| NETIF_F_TSO_ECN | NETIF_F_TSO6;
> 
> applied this and tun patch

Sorry Jeff, Rusty correctly points out that we do in fact handle
shinfo->frags; just a moment of blindness on my part.

Thanks,
Mark.

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