netdev - Re: [patch net-next-2.6 04/47] nes: do vlan cleanup

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Date:	Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:00:30 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
To:	Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	greearb@...delatech.com, faisal.latif@...el.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6 04/47] nes: do vlan cleanup

Wed, Jul 20, 2011 at 06:01:09PM CEST, mirqus@...il.com wrote:
>W dniu 20 lipca 2011 17:45 użytkownik Michał Mirosław
><mirqus@...il.com> napisał:
>> 2011/7/20 Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>:
>>> - unify vlan and nonvlan rx path
>>> - kill nesvnic->vlan_grp and nes_netdev_vlan_rx_register
>>> - allow to turn on/off rx/tx vlan accel via ethtool (set_features)
>> [...]
>>>  /**
>>> @@ -1656,7 +1679,7 @@ struct net_device *nes_netdev_init(struct nes_device *nesdev,
>>>        netdev->ethtool_ops = &nes_ethtool_ops;
>>>        netif_napi_add(netdev, &nesvnic->napi, nes_netdev_poll, 128);
>>>        nes_debug(NES_DBG_INIT, "Enabling VLAN Insert/Delete.\n");
>>> -       netdev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX | NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX;
>>> +       netdev->features |= NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX;
>> Just remove this line - nes_fix_features() is controlling the flag anyway.
>
>Forget it - it's good.
>
>I need to think about calling ndo_set_features callback at end of
>register_netdev() so the drivers won't need to duplicate the
>call/configuration in their ndo_init.

Yep, this came up to my thinking as well.

>
>Best Regards,
>Michał Mirosław
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