netdev - Re: Adding Support for SG,GSO,GRO

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Message-Id: <20101209.102914.193709247.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:29:14 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	srk@...com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Adding Support for SG,GSO,GRO

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:02:28 +0000

> So you really have no choice - you must implement hardware checksum
> offload if you want any of the others.

Right, advertising SG support is entirely pointless if you aren't
also advertising HW checksumming support.
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