netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] net: Add driver helper function to determine if checksum is offloadable

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Date:	Thu, 08 Oct 2015 16:09:42 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	kernel-team@...com, ogerlitz@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] net: Add driver helper function to determine if
 checksum is offloadable

On Mon, 2015-10-05 at 16:39 -0700, Tom Herbert wrote:
> This patch defines a helper function that drivers can call to check 
> if it is able to offload the checksum for a particular packet.

It occurs to me that by itself, this doesn't actually fix the problem.
We'd then need to go over all drivers which currently use
NETIF_F_IP_CSUM or NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM, and convert them. Would that be
the intention?

-- 
dwmw2


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