netdev - Re: [PATCH] spidernet: checksum and ethtool

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jun 2007 11:45:11 -0500
From:	linas@...tin.ibm.com (Linas Vepstas)
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] spidernet: checksum and ethtool

On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 05:24:36PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> It doesn't look like spidernet hardware can really checksum all protocols,
> the code looks like it does IPV4 only.  If so, it should use NETIF_F_IP_CSUM
> instead of NETIF_F_HW_CSUM.
> 
> The driver doesn't need it's own get/set for ethtool tx csum, and it
> should use the standard ethtool_op_get_link.

Can you provide a signed-off-by line, please?  I was hoping to submit
upstream today.

--linas

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