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Date:	Tue, 2 Nov 2010 01:14:23 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@...c.com>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Rasesh Mody <rmody@...cade.com>,
	Debashis Dutt <ddutt@...cade.com>,
	Kristoffer Glembo <kristoffer@...sler.com>,
	linux-driver@...gic.com, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Ethtool: cleanup strategy

Michał Mirosław wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 09:05:25PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]
> > It also might be worth defining a standard feature flag for RX checksum
> > offload, since currently every driver has to maintain its own private
> > flag.  Though we're running short of feature flags on 32-bit machines.
> 
> RX offloads are different in that most devices allow readback of
> configured bits, so actually no specific flags are needed.
[...]

Most devices also need resetting from time to time, so those flags still
need to be included in software state.

Ben.

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