From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Wright Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver. Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 16:51:22 -0700 Message-ID: <20060509235122.GJ24291@moss.sous-sol.org> References: <20060509085201.446830000@sous-sol.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Chris Wright , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, ian.pratt@xensource.com Return-path: Received: from 216-99-217-87.dsl.aracnet.com ([216.99.217.87]:16003 "EHLO sous-sol.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932277AbWEIXsv (ORCPT ); Tue, 9 May 2006 19:48:51 -0400 To: Herbert Xu Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org * Herbert Xu (herbert@gondor.apana.org.au) wrote: > Chris Wright wrote: > > > > + netdev->features = NETIF_F_IP_CSUM; > > Any reason why IP_CSUM was chosen instead of HW_CSUM? Doing the latter > would seem to be in fact easier for a virtual driver, no? That, I really don't know. thanks, -chris