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Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/5] Implement ndo_gso_check() for vxlan nics
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From: Joe Stringer <joestringer@nicira.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:06:46 -0800

> My impression was that the changes are more likely to be
> hardware-specific (like the i40e changes) rather than software-specific,
> like changes that might be integrated into the helper.

I think there is more commonality amongst hardware capabilities,
and this is why I want the helper to play itself out.

> That said, I can rework for one helper. The way I see it would be the
> same code as these patches, as "vxlan_gso_check(struct sk_buff *)" in
> drivers/net/vxlan.c which would be called from each driver. Is that what
> you had in mind?

Yes.