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Message-ID: <1308344222.2831.20.camel@bwh-desktop>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:57:02 +0100
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Cc: Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com>,
netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Allow NICs to pass Frame Checksum up the stack.
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 13:48 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> 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?
See this thread:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/196684
Ben.
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