From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] net/macb: add HW features to macb driver Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 23:40:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20140724.234026.1408822707562402333.davem@davemloft.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: nicolas.ferre@atmel.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, soren.brinkmann@xilinx.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: cyrille.pitchen@atmel.com Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org From: Cyrille Pitchen Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 13:50:57 +0200 > this series of patches adds new hardware features to macb driver. These > features can be enabled/disabled at runtime using ethtool. Depending on > hardware and design configuration, some are enabled by default whereas other > are disabled. > > For instance, checksum offload features are enabled by default for gem designed > for packet buffer mode but disabled for fifo mode design or for old macb. > > Besides, the scatter-gather feature is enabled and tested on macb but disabled > on sama5d3x gem. When testing this feature on sama5d3x gem, TX lockups occured > frequently. > > Also, the RX checksum offload feature is enabled at GEM level only when both > IFF_PROMISC bit is clear in dev->flags and NETIF_F_RXCSUM bit is set in > dev->features. > > These patches were made for net-next.git repository. Series applied, thanks.