netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net] vlan: Mask off vlan acceleration features on vlan device.

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Date:	Thu, 27 Mar 2014 15:12:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vyasevic@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net] vlan: Mask off vlan acceleration features on
 vlan device.

From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:28:31 -0400

> Some drivers incorrectly assign vlan acceleration features to
> vlan_features thus causing issues for Q-in-Q vlan configurations.
> Prevent this once and for all by masking off acceleration features
> for vlan devices until such time as we support stacked acceleration.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>

Vlad, I've thought more about this, I'd rather we emit a warning so
we can fix the drivers.

If they are setting the flags wrong, we probably want to go take a
look to see if they are doing anything else related wrong too.
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