RE: [PATCH RFC] net: vlan: reverse 4 bytes of vlan header when setting initial MTU

[David Laight]

From: Yunsheng Lin
> Sent: 21 October 2019 13:26
> Currently the MTU of vlan netdevice is set to the same MTU
> of the lower device, which requires the underlying device
> to handle it as the comment has indicated:
> 
> 	/* need 4 bytes for extra VLAN header info,
> 	 * hope the underlying device can handle it.
> 	 */
> 	new_dev->mtu = real_dev->mtu;
> 
> Currently most of the physical netdevs seems to handle above
> by reversing 2 * VLAN_HLEN for L2 packet len.

s/reverse/reserve/g

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