netdev - Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: allow tx of pre-formatted vlan tagged packets

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Message-ID: <9929d2390912041345g4557770bh1467db58b8ade572@mail.gmail.com>
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
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