Re: [PATCH V5 2/6 net-next] netdevice.h: Add zero-copy flag innetdevice

From: Ben Hutchings
Date: Mon May 16 2011 - 15:47:42 EST


On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 12:38 -0700, Shirley Ma wrote:
> On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 20:35 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > Sorry, bit 31 is taken. You get the job of turning features into a
> > wider bitmap.
>
> :) will do it.

Bear in mind that feature masks are manipulated in many different
places. This is not a simple task.

See previous discussion at:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/193284
and especially:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/193284/focus=193332

Ben.

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