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| author | Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> | 2007-09-25 19:42:02 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net> | 2007-10-10 16:52:17 -0700 |
| commit | e24eb521fbf2a350ce879dfc1d8e56d4ffa2aa22 (patch) | |
| tree | 6495c4bd8e2bdd6a376dea5252d36bc61f40c8a6 /include/linux | |
| parent | 1156b2c689bf509cdc254394598d410787a02aec (diff) | |
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[NET]: note that NETIF_F_LLTX is deprecated
Am Freitag, 21. September 2007 schrieb Herbert Xu:
> Please don't use LLTX in new drivers. We're trying to get rid
> of it since it's
>
> 1) unnecessary;
> 2) causes problems with AF_PACKET seeing things twice.
I suggest to document that LLTX is deprecated.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index baa915f0d285..2088097663b5 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -449,7 +449,8 @@ struct net_device #define NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER 512 /* Receive filtering on VLAN */ #define NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED 1024 /* Device cannot handle VLAN packets */ #define NETIF_F_GSO 2048 /* Enable software GSO. */ -#define NETIF_F_LLTX 4096 /* LockLess TX */ +#define NETIF_F_LLTX 4096 /* LockLess TX - deprecated. Please */ + /* do not use LLTX in new drivers */ #define NETIF_F_NETNS_LOCAL 8192 /* Does not change network namespaces */ #define NETIF_F_MULTI_QUEUE 16384 /* Has multiple TX/RX queues */ #define NETIF_F_LRO 32768 /* large receive offload */ |