RE: [PATCH 2.6.32-rc1] net: VMware virtual Ethernet NIC driver: vmxnet3

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Stephen,

Thanks for taking a look.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 30, 2009 5:39 PM
> To: Shreyas Bhatewara
> Cc: linux-kernel; netdev; Stephen Hemminger; David S. Miller; Jeff
> Garzik; Anthony Liguori; Chris Wright; Greg Kroah-Hartman; Andrew
> Morton; virtualization; pv-drivers
> Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.32-rc1] net: VMware virtual Ethernet NIC
> driver: vmxnet3
> 
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 14:34:57 -0700 (PDT)
> Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Note: your patch was linewrapped again
> 

Fixed the alpine option. Should not happen again.

> > +
> > +
> > +static void
> > +vmxnet3_declare_features(struct vmxnet3_adapter *adapter, bool
> dma64)
> > +{
> > +	struct net_device *netdev = adapter->netdev;
> > +
> > +	netdev->features = NETIF_F_SG |
> > +		NETIF_F_HW_CSUM |
> > +		NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_TX |
> > +		NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX |
> > +		NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER |
> > +		NETIF_F_TSO |
> > +		NETIF_F_TSO6;
> > +
> > +	printk(KERN_INFO "features: sg csum vlan jf tso tsoIPv6");
> > +
> > +	adapter->rxcsum = true;
> > +	adapter->jumbo_frame = true;
> > +
> > +	if (!disable_lro) {
> > +		adapter->lro = true;
> > +		printk(" lro");
> > +	}
> 
> Why not use NETIF_F_LRO and ethtool to control LRO support?

Yes, that would be a better way to do it. I will make that change.



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