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xen-netback: retire guest rx side prefix GSO feature
authorPaul Durrant <Paul.Durrant@citrix.com>
Tue, 4 Oct 2016 09:29:13 +0000 (10:29 +0100)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 7 Oct 2016 00:37:35 +0000 (20:37 -0400)
commit318f3dd733ca014ed7cbd83a61428930028dbeeb
treec1ec65b5672d0dda794abd74c2f0ac5ded628ad4
parent32655a6ff1b663779f34f8a3ed3a47dfa84332d7
xen-netback: retire guest rx side prefix GSO feature

As far as I am aware only very old Windows network frontends make use of
this style of passing GSO packets from backend to frontend. These
frontends can easily be replaced by the freely available Xen Project
Windows PV network frontend, which uses the 'default' mechanism for
passing GSO packets, which is also used by all Linux frontends.

NOTE: Removal of this feature will not cause breakage in old Windows
      frontends. They simply will no longer receive GSO packets - the
      packets instead being fragmented in the backend.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/xen-netback/common.h
drivers/net/xen-netback/interface.c
drivers/net/xen-netback/rx.c
drivers/net/xen-netback/xenbus.c