On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 3:06 PM, David Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Li Yang <[email protected]>
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 15:05:20 +0800
>
>> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:40 PM, David Miller <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > From: Li Yang <[email protected]>
>> > Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:04:29 +0800
>> >
>> >> The bridging device used a constant hard_header_len.  This will cause
>> >> headroom shortage for ports with additional hardware header.  The patch
>> >> makes bridging device to use the maximum value of all ports.
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Li Yang <[email protected]>
>> >
>> > Your driver must be able to cope with any amount of
>> > available headroom, no matter what hacks we put into
>> > the bridging layer.
>> >
>> > Please fix your driver, I'm not applying this patch.
>>
>> Ok.  But it's not good to reallocate every packet generated locally.
>> Why not take this patch too?
>
> Because as Stephen showed it didn't handle all cases.
>
> Look at the patch I posted, that's the way to go.

Patch coming right away.  However I have some comment about your way.
The choice is yours.

- Leo
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