netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/3] net: remove check for headroom in vlan_dev

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Message-Id: <20101115.101204.102552425.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:12:04 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	john.r.fastabend@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jesse@...ira.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/3] net: remove check for headroom in
 vlan_dev_create

From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:22:37 -0700

> It is possible for the headroom to be smaller then the
> hard_header_len for a short period of time after toggling
> the vlan offload setting.
> 
> This is not a hard error and skb_cow_head is called in
> __vlan_put_tag() to resolve this.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>

Applied.
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