netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] netxen: write IP address to firmware when using bonding

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Date:	Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:09:22 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	andy@...yhouse.net
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, sony.chacko@...gic.com,
	rajesh.borundia@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] netxen: write IP address to firmware when
 using bonding

From: Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
Date: Wed, 23 Nov 2011 13:43:11 -0500

> The following patch was added to enable NX3031 devices to properly
> aggregate frames for LRO:
> 
> 	commit 6598b169b856793f8f9b80a3f3c5a48f5eaf40e3
> 	Author: Dhananjay Phadke <dhananjay@...xen.com>
> 	Date:   Sun Jul 26 20:07:37 2009 +0000
> 
> 	    netxen: enable ip addr hashing
> 
> This patch is a followup to that fix as it allows LRO aggregation on
> bonded devices that contain an NX3031 device.  This was tested on an
> older distro and modified slightly to the latest upstream.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>

Let's put a helper function somewhere instead of expanding this sequence
in every driver that might want to determine if it is a bonding slave.
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