[ewg] Re: [PATCH] IB/ipoib: set child MTU as the parent's

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Tue Apr 29 12:46:47 PDT 2008


 > I think they do but it would require using two fields for flags at the
 > private data. priv->flags would
 > save flags that relate to the state of the net device, and say,
 > priv->cap_flags, to save stuff like LRO,
 > checksum or any other stuff related to capabilities. What do you think?

We could do that or just copy only the flags that should be copied when
creating a child device.

 - R.



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