From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tobias Regnery Subject: [PATCH net-next] alx: add feature flag for rx checksumming Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2017 13:15:55 +0100 Message-ID: <20170109121555.4592-1-tobias.regnery@gmail.com> Cc: davem@davemloft.net, Tobias Regnery To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jcliburn@gmail.com, chris.snook@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from mail-wm0-f68.google.com ([74.125.82.68]:34738 "EHLO mail-wm0-f68.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1760237AbdAIMQQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Jan 2017 07:16:16 -0500 Received: by mail-wm0-f68.google.com with SMTP id c85so21543083wmi.1 for ; Mon, 09 Jan 2017 04:16:16 -0800 (PST) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: The code to handle rx checksumming was in the driver since its introduction but for reasons unknown the feature flag was left out. Now it is possible to enable this feature with ethtool. Tested on my AR8161 ethernet card, there are no regressions observed in netperf if this feature is enabled. Signed-off-by: Tobias Regnery --- drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/main.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/main.c index c66195d00ed4..4c80e0689db9 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/atheros/alx/main.c @@ -1816,6 +1816,7 @@ static int alx_probe(struct pci_dev *pdev, const struct pci_device_id *ent) netdev->hw_features = NETIF_F_SG | NETIF_F_HW_CSUM | + NETIF_F_RXCSUM | NETIF_F_TSO | NETIF_F_TSO6; -- 2.9.3