netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: sky2: convert to hw

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Message-ID: <20110410115302.450794c7@nehalam>
Date:	Sun, 10 Apr 2011 11:53:02 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: sky2: convert to hw_features

On Sun, 10 Apr 2011 15:13:21 +0200 (CEST)
Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl> wrote:

> Caveats:
>  - driver modifies vlan_features on HW VLAN TX changes
>  - broken RX checksum will be reenabled on features change
> 

To be more precise. This is acceptable if and only if all cases
where features are disabled in response to MTU and chip versions
are exactly the same. We don't want to let some user stumble upon
cases where hardware features don't work in their configuration.


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