netdev - Re: [PATCH] bgmac: Remove all offloading features, including GRO.

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Date:   Fri, 15 Sep 2017 17:18:15 -0700
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     rosenp@...il.com
Cc:     Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        zajec5@...il.com, nbd@....name
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bgmac: Remove all offloading features, including GRO.

On Fri, 2017-09-15 at 17:10 -0700, rosenp@...il.com wrote:
> Ok fair enough. Will only disable GRO in the driver.

Well, do not even try.

NETIF_F_SOFT_FEATURES is set by core networking stack in
register_netdevice(), ( commit 212b573f5552c60265da721ff9ce32e3462a2cdd
)

Absolutely no driver disables GRO (excepts the ones playing with LRO)