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[PATCH] virtio-net: fix inconsistent legacy header size

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 09:22:00 -0000

Current text says: The legacy driver only presented num_buffers in the struct virtio_net_hdr when VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF was not negotiated; Should be: "... was negotiated ..." instead of "... was not negotiated ..." To be consistent with the following: without that feature the structure was 2 bytes shorter. Reported-by: Thomas Huth <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <[email protected]> --- I'm checking this in under the trivial corrections rule. content.tex 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content.tex b/content.tex index 941daa6..5b8a22c 100644 --- a/content.tex +++ b/content.tex @@ -3268,7 +3268,7 @@ according to the native endian of the guest rather than (necessarily when not using the legacy interface) little-endian. The legacy driver only presented field{num_buffers} in the struct virtio_net_hdr -when VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF was not negotiated; without that feature the +when VIRTIO_NET_F_MRG_RXBUF was negotiated; without that feature the structure was 2 bytes shorter. When using the legacy interface, the driver SHOULD ignore the -- MST