netdev - Re: tap/bridge: Dropping NETIF_F_GSO/NETIF_F

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Message-ID: <20110516224658.GA11157@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Tue, 17 May 2011 08:46:58 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com>
Cc:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
	Shan Wei <shanwei@...fujitsu.com>,
	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Subject: Re: tap/bridge: Dropping NETIF_F_GSO/NETIF_F_SG

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 02:24:19PM +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
>
> In this case - no. Those messages inform that driver supports more
> feature combinations than network core and the feature set is reduced
> because of that.

The driver should never even claim to support SG/TSO/UFO if it
does not support checksum.  That is the point of the warning.

Cheers,
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