netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: allow user to change NETIF_F

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Message-ID: <20110422093850.13df40ce@nehalam>
Date:	Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:38:50 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: allow user to change NETIF_F_HIGHDMA

On Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:31:16 +0200 (CEST)
Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl> wrote:

> NETIF_F_HIGHDMA is like any other TX offloads, so allow user to toggle it.
> This is needed later for bridge and bonding convertsion to hw_features.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>

This was meant to be a hidden flag that that reflects capability of
hardware. Do yo really mean to allow user to disable it via ethtool?
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