Re: [E1000-devel] [net-next PATCH] e1000e: allow tx of pre-formatted vlan tagged packets

[David M. <da...@da...>]

From: Arthur Jones <aj...@ri...>
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 12:59:05 -0700

> As with igb, when the e1000e driver is fed 802.1q
> packets with hardware checksum on, it chokes with an
> error of the form:
> 
> checksum_partial proto=81!
> 
> As the logic there was not smart enough to look into
> the vlan header to pick out the encapsulated protocol.
> 
> There are times when we'd like to send these packets
> out without having to configure a vlan on the interface.
> Here we check for the vlan tag and allow the packet to
> go out with the correct hardware checksum.
> 
> Thanks to Kand Ly <ka...@ri...> for discovering the
> issue and the coming up with a solution.  This patch is
> based upon his work.
> 
> Fixups from Stephen Hemminger <she...@vy...> and
> Alexander Duyck <ale...@in...>.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arthur Jones <aj...@ri...>

Jeff K., you got this one too?