Re: [RFC PATCH] net: fold dev_disable_lro() into netdev_fix_features()

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From: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat,  7 May 2011 13:48:02 +0200 (CEST)

> This moves checks that device is forwarding from bridge, IPv4 and IPv6
> code into netdev_fix_features(). As a side effect, after device is no longer
> forwarding it gets LRO back. This also means that user is not allowed to
> enable LRO after device is put to forwarding mode.
> 
> This patch depends on removal of discrete offload setting ethtool ops.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

We need to keep the check in the protocols because we don't want to
be testing protocol specific device state in generic code like
net/core/dev.c
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