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Message-ID: <4DFBBD83.9040300@candelatech.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:48:03 -0700
From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To: Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com>
CC: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Allow NICs to pass Frame Checksum up the stack.
On 06/17/2011 01:00 PM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> 2011/6/17<greearb@...delatech.com>:
>> From: Ben Greear<greearb@...delatech.com>
>>
>> This series provides ethtool support to set and get the rx-checksum
>> flag, and adds support to the e100 driver.
> [...]
>
> If you want to test the new features approach, you can shave top bit
> off NETIF_F_GSO_MASK (there are two unused bits there). The
> introducing patch will be +2 lines (+1 dev.c, +1 ethtool.c),
> implementation in e100: 20 lines less than patch you sent, ethtool
> userspace changes: none (assuming
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/96374/ or equivalent applied).
Well, is that patch going in?
How do we get more bits if we need more than two? Totally new
API?
Thanks,
Ben
>
> Best Regards,
> Michał Mirosław
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Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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