From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/usb/asix: resync from vendor's copy Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2011 16:34:04 +0000 Message-ID: <1320856444.18929.78.camel@deadeye> References: <4EA89972.5060101@teksavvy.com> <20111026.194045.2019668159403582571.davem@davemloft.net> <4EA8B283.3010105@teksavvy.com> <20111026.221719.2216112919297458522.davem@davemloft.net> <4EB19BBE.5050602@teksavvy.com> <1320266549.2782.21.camel@bwh-desktop> <4EBAA967.10403@teksavvy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: David Miller , , To: Mark Lord Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4EBAA967.10403@teksavvy.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 11:25 -0500, Mark Lord wrote: > On 11-11-02 04:42 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Wed, 2011-11-02 at 15:36 -0400, Mark Lord wrote: > > [...] > >> First cut (for review) at updating the in-kernel asix usb/network driver > >> from the latest vendor GPL version of the driver, obtained from here: > >> > >> http://www.asix.com.tw/download.php?sub=searchresult&PItemID=84&download=driver > .. > >> --- linux-3.0/drivers/net/usb/asix.c 2011-10-12 17:59:03.000000000 -0400 > >> +++ linux/drivers/net/usb/asix.c 2011-11-01 19:00:50.051289683 -0400 > > [...] > ... > >> + .set_tx_csum = ax88772b_set_tx_csum, > >> + .get_tx_csum = ax88772b_get_tx_csum, > >> + .get_rx_csum = ax88772b_get_rx_csum, > >> + .set_rx_csum = ax88772b_set_rx_csum, > >> +}; > > > > The various ethtool operations for offload flags are being (or have > > been) removed. The driver must set net_device::hw_features and > > implement net_device_ops::ndo_set_features instead. > > Okay, I see what to do for the rx_csum stuff, based on other drivers. > > But is there anything to replace the tx_csum stuff, > or should I just remove it entirely without a substitute? If TX checksum offload only needs to be requested in TX descriptors and not in a configuration register, then you don't need to do anything when it's enabled or disabled. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff 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.