netdev - RE: [PATCH net] act_ife: Add support for machines with hard_header_len != mac

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Date:   Fri, 23 Sep 2016 12:28:06 +0000
From:   Yotam Gigi <yotamg@...lanox.com>
To:     David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:     "jhs@...atatu.com" <jhs@...atatu.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        mlxsw <mlxsw@...lanox.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH net] act_ife: Add support for machines with
 hard_header_len != mac_len


>-----Original Message-----
>From: David Miller [mailto:davem@...emloft.net]
>Sent: Friday, September 23, 2016 2:06 PM
>To: Yotam Gigi <yotamg@...lanox.com>
>Cc: jhs@...atatu.com; netdev@...r.kernel.org
>Subject: Re: [PATCH net] act_ife: Add support for machines with hard_header_len
>!= mac_len
>
>From: Yotam Gigi <yotamg@...lanox.com>
>Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2016 15:54:13 +0300
>
>> Without that fix, the following could occur:
> ...
>
>I don't think what you are doing in mlxsw is valid.
>
>You can't set hard_header_len arbitrarily, it's the MAC length.
>
>If you need to prepend special headers or whatever, set
>->needed_headroom which is designed for this purpose.

Ok, we will fix that.

Thanks for the comment!

>
>Thanks.