[PATCH] net: mv643xx_eth: remove deprecated inet_lro support

Sebastian Hesselbarth sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com
Thu Apr 11 15:52:52 EDT 2013


On 04/11/2013 09:46 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-04-11 at 21:11 +0200, Sebastian Hesselbarth wrote:
>> With recent support for GRO, there is no need to keep both LRO and
>> GRO. This patch therefore removes the deprecated inet_lro support
>> from mv643xx_eth. This is work is based on an experimental patch
>> provided by Eric Dumazet and Willy Tarreau.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sebastian Hesselbarth<sebastian.hesselbarth at gmail.com>
>> Based-on-patch-by: Eric Dumazet<eric.dumazet at gmail.com>
>> Based-on-patch-by: Willy Tarreau<w at 1wt.eu>
>> ---
>> Note: This patch is based upon recent cleanup patches and GRO support
>> patch for mv643xx_eth.
>>
>> Cc: "David S. Miller"<davem at davemloft.net>
>> Cc: Lennert Buytenhek<buytenh at wantstofly.org>
>> Cc: Andrew Lunn<andrew at lunn.ch>
>> Cc: Jason Cooper<jason at lakedaemon.net>
>> Cc: Florian Fainelli<florian at openwrt.org>
>> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt<benh at kernel.crashing.org>
>> Cc: Paul Mackerras<paulus at samba.org>
>> Cc: Dale Farnsworth<dale at farnsworth.org>
>> Cc: Ben Hutchings<bhutchings at solarflare.com>
>> Cc: Soeren Moch<smoch at web.de>
>> Cc: Eric Dumazet<eric.dumazet at gmail.com>
>> Cc: Willy Tarreau<w at 1wt.eu>
>> Cc: netdev at vger.kernel.org
>> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
>> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
>> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
>> ---
>>   drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/mv643xx_eth.c |   97 +---------------------------
>>   1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)
>
> Seems fine to me, but you also could remove "select INET_LRO"
> from drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/Kconfig

Ok, I will wait for tomorrow to see if there are more objections and
respin a v2.

Sebastian



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