From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Allow NICs to pass Frame Checksum up the stack. Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 21:57:02 +0100 Message-ID: <1308344222.2831.20.camel@bwh-desktop> References: <1308339615-5866-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> <4DFBBD83.9040300@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: =?UTF-8?Q?Micha=C5=82_Miros=C5=82aw?= , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Ben Greear Return-path: Received: from exchange.solarflare.com ([216.237.3.220]:2453 "EHLO exchange.solarflare.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756809Ab1FQU5F convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:57:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4DFBBD83.9040300@candelatech.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 13:48 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > On 06/17/2011 01:00 PM, Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw wrote: > > 2011/6/17: > >> From: Ben Greear > >> > >> This series provides ethtool support to set and get the rx-checksu= m > >> flag, and adds support to the e100 driver. > > [...] > > > > If you want to test the new features approach, you can shave top bi= t > > off NETIF_F_GSO_MASK (there are two unused bits there). The > > introducing patch will be +2 lines (+1 dev.c, +1 ethtool.c), > > implementation in e100: 20 lines less than patch you sent, ethtool > > userspace changes: none (assuming > > http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/96374/ or equivalent applied). >=20 > Well, is that patch going in? >=20 > How do we get more bits if we need more than two? Totally new > API? See this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/196684 Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked.