netdev - Re: [PATCH net] net/8021q: Check the correct vlan filter capability

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Message-Id: <20160224.164934.1286780116750770665.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 24 Feb 2016 16:49:34 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	saeedm@....mellanox.co.il
Cc:	saeedm@...lanox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, galp@...lanox.com,
	ogerlitz@...lanox.com, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] net/8021q: Check the correct vlan filter capability

From: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@....mellanox.co.il>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2016 22:35:16 +0200

> BTW we choose the first option since the "buggy" function is called
> "vlan_hw_filter_capable" which lead us to decide that the function
> should be looking for ->hw_features and not ->features.
> and i think this way it makes more sense.

Again, anything doing checks on ->hw_features other than for the
purposes of the validation of a ->feature change is a bug.