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

[Jeff K. <jef...@in...>]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 11:41 PM, David Miller <da...@da...> wrote:
> 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?
> --

Yes.  I have both.  The are both in my queue, and I should have
something for you Dave later tonight/tomorrow morning.

-- 
Cheers,
Jeff