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Date:	Tue, 20 Aug 2013 15:29:50 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, amwang@...hat.com,
	stephen@...workplumber.org, kaber@...sh.net, davem@...emloft.net,
	vyasevic@...hat.com, johannes@...solutions.net,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] net: propagate dynamic needed_headroom/tailroom
 changes

Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 02:45:49PM CEST, f.fainelli@...il.com wrote:
>Hi all,
>
>This patchset aims at allowing dynamically changing a given device
>needed_headroom/tailroom space and propagating such events to stacked
>devices such as bridges and vlans.

You should also add support for other stacked devices, like bonding,
team, macvlan, ovs-datapath, etc.	
	
>
>Unless callers use the new helpers (dev_set_headroom/dev_set_tailroom)
>there is no functional change introduced.
>
>I tested this with an out of tree Ethernet driver with both VLANs and
>bridges and the need for a 64-byte headroom to insert a transmit
>status descriptor in front of a SKB.

Would be nice to add at least one driver which would use your new api.

Thanks,
	Jiri

>
>Since I am not familiar with all subsystems/drivers changing the
>needed_headroom/tailroom requirements, I would leave that to them.
>
>Florian Fainelli (3):
>  net: add a new NETDEV_CHANGEROOM event type
>  net: vlan: handle NETDEV_CHANGEROOM events
>  net: bridge: handle NETDEV_CHANGEROOM event
>
> include/linux/netdevice.h |  3 +++
> net/8021q/vlan.c          |  7 +++++++
> net/bridge/br_if.c        | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> net/bridge/br_notify.c    |  5 +++++
> net/bridge/br_private.h   |  2 ++
> net/core/dev.c            | 46 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 6 files changed, 95 insertions(+)
>
>-- 
>1.8.1.2
>
>
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