netdev - Re: [PATCH] vlan: propagate gso_min

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Date:	Wed, 23 Mar 2016 11:34:24 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	yanhaishuang@...s.chinamobile.com, kaber@...sh.net,
	nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vlan: propagate gso_min_segs

On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 14:25 -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 19:33:52 -0700
> 
> > On Wed, 2016-03-23 at 09:35 +0800, Haishuang Yan wrote:
> >> vlan drivers lack proper propagation of gso_min_segs from lower device.
> >> 
> >> Signed-off-by: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@...s.chinamobile.com>
> >> ---
> > 
> > The plan was to get rid of gso_min_segs, as nothing uses it.
> > 
> > Otherwise I would have included this in my recent patches...
> > 
> > For such a rare 'issue' , we believe ndo_features_check() is better,
> > because it does not slow down the fast path.
> 
> I'm not aplpying this.

I am adding to my TODO list a revert, when net-next opens again.

Thanks.