From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] Configure out ethtool support Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:57:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080731.035708.149435626.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20080731104004.GN10471@solarflare.com> <20080731.034904.190066778.davem@davemloft.net> <1217501664.3454.151.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1217501664.3454.151.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Sender: linux-embedded-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" To: dwmw2@infradead.org Cc: bhutchings@solarflare.com, thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, michael@free-electrons.com, mpm@selenic.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org From: David Woodhouse Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:54:24 +0100 > Other potential approaches include not enabling LRO by default if > !CONFIG_ETHTOOL. Or having the driver(s) which _do_ enable LRO by > default 'select ETHTOOL'. It is possible for us to generically enable LRO for every device, since it is a software algorithm. And likely we will do something like this in the not too distant future.