Re: [PATCH] NETIF_F_LLTX for devices 2

[jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 16:47, David S. Miller wrote:

> 
> We are merely moving the sch_generic.c locking logic into the
> drivers.  The behavior is entirely equivalent except that one
> level of unnecessary locking has been removed.
> 
> I think his change is valid, will not break existing drivers (as
> you mentioned as well Jamal), and works well for the cases he has
> shown patches of.  So I'm going to apply his patch.
> 
> BTW, if we are really concerned about some existing driver returning
> -1 from hard_start_xmit() without the new feature flag being enabled,
> we can test for that and log a debugging message if it happens.

I am not 100% happy but let me do some testing on it. Would the best
image be the latest bk snapshot?

cheers,
jamal