netdev - Re: csum offload and af

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Message-Id: <20080817.191224.118214583.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 17 Aug 2008 19:12:24 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kaber@...sh.net
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...eo.de,
	rusty@...tcorp.com.au, anthony@...emonkey.ws,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: csum offload and af_packet

From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:13:35 +0200

> the linux support looks a lot cleaner in general

I totally disagree after having looked at this thing.

The number of ifdefs has doubled in pcap-linux.c since the last
official release, it's quite a mess.  It's still handling all sorts of
obscure bugs we had back in 2.0.x as well.


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