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

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Date:	Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:59:47 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.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 Wed, 2011-07-13 at 17:48 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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.

Users of ETHTOOL_{G,S}FEATURES are supposed to use the corresponding
string set to map names to bits (and vice versa).  It is OK to renumber
features, and to remove them if they are no longer implemented.

Ben.

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