netdev - Re: [PATCH 07/10] net: remove NETIF_F_NO

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Message-ID: <20110713174849.41dd634d@nehalam.ftrdhcpuser.net>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:48:49 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Cc:	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] net: remove NETIF_F_NO_CSUM feature

On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:23:29 +0100
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 02:10 +0200, Michał Mirosław wrote:
> > There are no explicit users, so this is now equivalent to NETIF_F_HW_CSUM.
> [...]
> 
> I think this is still a useful distinction, even the networking core
> currently doesn't care about the difference.
> 
> Ben.

It also is a kernel API change since this part is exposed
through ethtool calls.
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