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From: Levi Pearson <levipearson@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 12:09:32 -0600

> It would be a shame if this were blocked due to a missing software
> implementation.

Quite the contrary, I think a software implementation is a minimum
requirement for inclusion of this feature.

Without a software implementation, there is no clear definition of
what is supposed to happen, and no clear way for people to test those
expectations unless they have the specific hardware.

I completely agree with Jiri.  Hardware offload first is _not_ how
we do things in the Linux networking.