netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2 RESEND v3] net: use NETIF_F_ALL

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Message-ID: <4DCC930D.80805@cn.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 May 2011 10:10:21 +0800
From:	Shan Wei <shanwei@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Dimitris Michailidis <dm@...lsio.com>
CC:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, eilong@...adcom.com,
	leedom@...lsio.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2 RESEND v3] net: use NETIF_F_ALL_TSO for vlan
 features

Dimitris Michailidis wrote, at 2011年05月13日 01:05:
> But vlan_features doesn't indicate by itself what the device supports, and it is because of this that you can use NETIF_F_ALL_TSO in vlan_features without much future breakage risk.  There's still the potential that in the future some additional TSO variant will be added that some of the drivers you're changing support, but not over VLANs, and then they'll need to undo you change.
 
For this part.

David, please discard this patch.
 
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Shan Wei
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