netdev - Re: [PATCH net] Revert "net: Add driver helper functions to determine checksum offloadability"

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Message-Id: <20161013.103548.511298911926565246.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Thu, 13 Oct 2016 10:35:48 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     stephen@...workplumber.org
Cc:     tom@...bertland.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] Revert "net: Add driver helper functions to
 determine checksum offloadability"

From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2016 13:04:09 -0700

> This reverts commit 6ae23ad36253a8033c5714c52b691b84456487c5.
> 
> The code has been in kernel since 4.4 but there are no in tree
> code that uses. Unused code is broken code, remove it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>

Tom if you have any real plans to develop on this work at all in
the immediate future, please speak up now.

Otherwise I'm applying Stephen's patch.

Thanks.