netdev - Re: [PATCH] ethtool: change ethtool_set_gro() to use ethtool_op_get_rx

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Message-Id: <20100917.115707.106807995.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 17 Sep 2010 11:57:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, bphilips@...e.de,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, bruce.w.allan@...el.com,
	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com, john.ronciak@...el.com,
	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ethtool: change ethtool_set_gro() to use
 ethtool_op_get_rx_csum

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:11:03 +0200

> [PATCH] ethtool: change ethtool_set_gro() to use ethtool_op_get_rx_csum
> 
> To be able to switch on GRO on a device, ethtool_set_gro() checks this
> device provides a get_rx_csum() method.
> 
> Some devices dont provide this method, while they do support RX
> checksumming.
> 
> This patch allows bonding to support GRO :
> 
> ethtool -K bond0 gro on
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.

Can you do whatever change is needed to get it enabled by default?

Thanks again.
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