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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Subject: Re: Adding Support for SG,GSO,GRO
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:20:28 +0000
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On Fri, 2010-12-10 at 17:01 +0100, Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw wrote:
[...]
> The question is do we really want good checksum for bogus data?
[...]

It's not bogus data.  It's a snapshot of the file contents at some
arbitrary point in time.

Now please stop wasting your own time and that of the networking
maintainers, and remember to check for checksum offload next time you
need to select a network controller.

Ben.

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