From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
To: Peter Oh <poh@qca.qualcomm.com>, ath10k@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath10k: add modparam 'hw_csum' to make HW checksum configurable
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2015 19:27:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5671AD10.70004@openwrt.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1450290051-15593-1-git-send-email-poh@qca.qualcomm.com>
On 2015-12-16 19:20, Peter Oh wrote:
> Some hardwares such as QCA988X and QCA99X0 doesn't have
> capability of checksum offload when frame formats are not
> suitable for it such as Mesh frame.
> Hence add a module parameter, hw_csum, to make checksum offload
> configurable during module registration time.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Oh <poh@qca.qualcomm.com>
How about instead of inventing yet another crappy module parameter, you
call skb_checksum_help() in the driver in cases where the hardware is
unable to offload the checksum calculation.
That way the user has to worry about less driver specific hackery ;)
- Felix
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-16 18:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-16 18:20 [PATCH] ath10k: add modparam 'hw_csum' to make HW checksum configurable Peter Oh
2015-12-16 18:27 ` Felix Fietkau [this message]
2015-12-16 20:29 ` Peter Oh
2015-12-16 20:35 ` Felix Fietkau
2015-12-16 20:46 ` Peter Oh
2015-12-16 20:53 ` Felix Fietkau
2015-12-16 21:19 ` Peter Oh
2015-12-16 21:54 ` Felix Fietkau
2015-12-16 23:50 ` Peter Oh
2015-12-16 23:59 ` Felix Fietkau
2015-12-17 22:01 ` Peter Oh
2015-12-17 22:57 ` Felix Fietkau
2015-12-17 23:16 ` Peter Oh
2015-12-17 7:29 ` Michal Kazior
2015-12-17 21:55 ` Peter Oh
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