netdev - Re: [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support

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Message-Id: <20080730.153340.130551303.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:33:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	thomas.petazzoni@...e-electrons.com, shemminger@...tta.com,
	jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, mpm@...enic.com
Subject: Re: [patch 12/12] Configure out ethtool support

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2008 15:13:16 -0700

> If they don't do this then tens of millions of devices will be burdened
> with many kilobytes of code which they will never ever need.

In the current tree, ethtool is even needed with just the core
IPV4 stack, in order to disable LRO when forwarding is enabled.

See dev_disable_lro() and it's callers in net/ipv4/devinet.c
et al.

As Stephen Hemminger mentioned, bridging uses this too.

So essentially, this new config option would need to depend
on CONFIG_INET, and how useful is that?
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