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Message-Id: <20110619.162015.1284402754081338255.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 19 Jun 2011 16:20:15 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	greearb@...delatech.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Allow NICs to pass Frame Checksum up the stack.

From: greearb@...delatech.com
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 12:40:13 -0700

> This series provides ethtool support to set and get the rx-checksum
> flag, and adds support to the e100 driver.

Please don't create entire new ethtool ops just to set what amounts
precisely to a boolean flag, that's what ETHTOOL_{S,G}FLAGS is for.

The fact that we've exhausted 32-bits of flags in netdev->features
is not an acceptable reason to avoid using those interfaces.
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