On Tue, 2017-01-24 at 10:40 +0100, Paolo Abeni wrote: > Currently we use the NETIF_F_LLTX feature bit to identify such devices, > since all the [legacy] phys drivers setting such bit are not prone > the hangup issue. The plan is adding a specific 'this is a > virtual device' priv flag and use it instead, in a later net-next > patch.
This is too ugly in my opinion. LLTX is LLTX, and has absolutely nothing to do with connection tracking. We have ndo_features_check, and this can be trivially backported to stable versions. No need for yet another flag really.
