netdev - Re: [UNTESTED] Add hardware-assisted VLAN support for GRO

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Message-Id: <20090104.225727.236263263.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:57:27 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [UNTESTED] Add hardware-assisted VLAN support for GRO

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Fri, 2 Jan 2009 16:49:21 +1100

> On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 04:47:14PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> >
> > vlan: Add GRO interfaces
> > 
> > This patch adds GRO interfaces for hardware-assisted VLAN reception.
> > With this in place we're now at parity with LRO as far as the
> > interface is concerned.  That is, you can now take any LRO driver
> > and convert it over to GRO.
> 
> Here's an updated description for the 2nd patch:

These changes look fine to me, although the skb->dev trick
is... exciting :-)

Please resubmit these changes individually when you've tested
them, thanks!
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