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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/10] net: remove NETIF_F_NO_CSUM feature
Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 17:48:49 -0700
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On Thu, 14 Jul 2011 01:23:29 +0100
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2011-07-14 at 02:10 +0200, Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw wrote:
> > There are no explicit users, so this is now equivalent to NETIF_F_H=
W_CSUM.
> [...]
>=20
> I think this is still a useful distinction, even the networking core
> currently doesn't care about the difference.
>=20
> Ben.

It also is a kernel API change since this part is exposed
through ethtool calls.