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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ehea: add the correct LRO status at dev->features
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 08:48:24 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101206084824.637d6b29@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1291653582-14177-1-git-send-email-leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

On Mon,  6 Dec 2010 14:39:42 -0200
leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com wrote:

> Currently ehea is not setting NETIF_F_LRO, and it is not providing
> a callback for get_flags on ethtool. This patch fixes it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Breno Leitao <leitao@linux.vnet.ibm.com>

More importantly, ehea does not support set_flags to disable LRO.

I will be more blunt. Any device that supports LRO and does
not have the necessary interface to disable it is broken and should
not be used.

-- 

  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-06 16:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-06 16:39 [PATCH] ehea: add the correct LRO status at dev->features leitao
2010-12-06 16:48 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2010-12-06 16:57   ` Breno Leitao
2010-12-06 17:10     ` [RFC] mark devices with broken LRO implementation Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-06 17:18       ` Olof Johansson
2010-12-06 17:28         ` David Miller
2010-12-06 17:58           ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-12-06 17:33     ` [PATCH] ehea: add the correct LRO status at dev->features David Miller

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