netdev - Re: [PATCH net] bna: allow transmit tagged frames

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Date:	Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:02:00 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ivecera@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rasesh.mody@...gic.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bna: allow transmit tagged frames

From: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>
Date: Mon,  6 Oct 2014 19:02:37 +0200

> When Tx VLAN offloading is disabled frames with size ~ MTU are not
> transmitted as the driver does not account 4 bytes of VLAN header added
> by stack. It should use VLAN_ETH_HLEN instead of ETH_HLEN.
> 
> The second problem is with newer BNA chips (BNA 1860). These chips filter
> out any VLAN tagged frames in Tx path. This is a problem when Tx VLAN
> offloading is disabled and frames are tagged by stack. Older chips like
> 1010/1020 are not affected as they probably don't do such filtering.
> 
> Cc: Rasesh Mody <rasesh.mody@...gic.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ivan Vecera <ivecera@...hat.com>

Applied, thanks.
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