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Date: Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:45:44 -0800 From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com> To: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty@...erbed.com> Cc: "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Arthur Jones <ajones@...erbed.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: allow tx of pre-formatted vlan tagged packets On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 13:12, Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty@...erbed.com> wrote: > ixgbe: allow tx of pre-formatted vlan tagged packets > > When the 82598 is fed 802.1q packets, it chokes with > an error of the form: > > ixgbe: eth0: ixgbe_tx_csum: partial checksum but proto=81! > > As the logic there was not smart enough to look into > the vlan header to pick out the encapsulated protocol. > > There are times when we'd like to send these packets > out without having to configure a vlan on the interface. > Here we check for the vlan tag and allow the packet to > go out with the correct hardware checksum. > > This patch is a clone of a previously submitted patch by > Arthur Jones <ajones@...erbed.com> for igb (Commit - > fa4a7ef36ec834fee1719636b30d2f28f4cb0166). > > Signed-off-by: Gurucharan Shetty <gshetty@...erbed.com> > Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <ajones@...erbed.com> > Thanks, I have added the patch to my queue for testing. After successful testing, I will push to Dave/netdev. -- Cheers, Jeff -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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