netdev - Re: [RFC 0/3] lro: Generic Large Receive Offload for TCP traffic

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Message-ID: <20070715091253.GA15790@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 15 Jul 2007 10:12:53 +0100
From:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	ossthema@...ibm.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, raisch@...ibm.com,
	themann@...ibm.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...abs.org, meder@...ibm.com, tklein@...ibm.com,
	stefan.roscher@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] lro: Generic Large Receive Offload for TCP traffic

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 11:57:48PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> only request is to make this thing able to handle ipv6 as
> well even if no current chips could facilitate that yet.

I'm not sure that's a good idea.  If current chips can't handle ipv6
lro there is no way to actually test it and the code will surely bitrot.

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