netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: use NETIF_F_ALL

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Message-Id: <20110505.105350.183065364.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 05 May 2011 10:53:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	shanwei@...fujitsu.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eilong@...adcom.com, dm@...lsio.com,
	leedom@...lsio.com, mirqus@...il.com, bhutchings@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: use NETIF_F_ALL_TSO for vlan features

From: Shan Wei <shanwei@...fujitsu.com>
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 13:20:52 +0800

> 
> As Dimitris Michailidis suggested, use NETIF_F_ALL_TSO for vlan_features,
> which is a mask, but not hw_features. 
> 
> Compile test.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shan Wei <shanwei@...fujitsu.com>

I do not understand why we want to advertise a set of ->vlan_features
TSO flags that are different from the flags advertised in ->hw_features.

Why do we want to do this?
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