From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
To: "Michał Mirosław" <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
Steve Glendinning <steve.glendinning@smsc.com>,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
Rasesh Mody <rmody@brocade.com>,
Debashis Dutt <ddutt@brocade.com>,
Kristoffer Glembo <kristoffer@gaisler.com>,
linux-driver@qlogic.com, linux-net-drivers@solarflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Ethtool: cleanup strategy
Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 01:14:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101102011422.GM15074@solarflare.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101102010253.GC15848@rere.qmqm.pl>
Michał Mirosław wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 09:05:25PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]
> > It also might be worth defining a standard feature flag for RX checksum
> > offload, since currently every driver has to maintain its own private
> > flag. Though we're running short of feature flags on 32-bit machines.
>
> RX offloads are different in that most devices allow readback of
> configured bits, so actually no specific flags are needed.
[...]
Most devices also need resetting from time to time, so those flags still
need to be included in software state.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-02 1:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-31 3:40 [PATCH 0/4] Ethtool: cleanup strategy Michał Mirosław
2010-10-30 4:27 ` [PATCH 1/4] Ethtool: Introduce hw_features field in struct netdevice Michał Mirosław
2010-10-30 4:28 ` [PATCH 2/4] Ethtool: convert get_sg/set_sg calls to hw_features flag Michał Mirosław
2010-11-01 21:15 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-02 0:59 ` Michał Mirosław
2010-11-02 2:24 ` Matt Carlson
2010-11-03 22:29 ` Micha?? Miros??aw
2010-11-03 22:42 ` Matt Carlson
2010-11-03 22:58 ` Michał Mirosław
2010-10-30 8:44 ` [PATCH 3/4] Ethtool: convert get_tso/set_tso calls to hw_features flags Michał Mirosław
2010-11-01 21:25 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-02 1:14 ` Michał Mirosław
2010-11-02 2:49 ` Matt Carlson
2010-10-31 0:09 ` [PATCH 4/4] Ethtool: convert get_tx_csum/set_tx_csum " Michał Mirosław
2010-11-01 21:38 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-02 1:23 ` Michał Mirosław
2010-10-31 4:18 ` [PATCH 0/4] Ethtool: cleanup strategy David Miller
2010-10-31 4:30 ` Michał Mirosław
2010-11-01 21:05 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-11-02 1:02 ` Michał Mirosław
2010-11-02 1:14 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2010-11-02 1:30 ` Michał Mirosław
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