From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Allow NICs to pass Frame Checksum up the stack. Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:58:55 -0700 Message-ID: <4DFBC00F.4000500@candelatech.com> References: <1308339615-5866-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> <4DFBBD83.9040300@candelatech.com> <1308344222.2831.20.camel@bwh-desktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: =?UTF-8?B?TWljaGHFgiBNaXJvc8WCYXc=?= , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Ben Hutchings Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:55098 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932205Ab1FQU7A (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2011 16:59:00 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1308344222.2831.20.camel@bwh-desktop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 06/17/2011 01:57 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 13:48 -0700, Ben Greear wrote: >> On 06/17/2011 01:00 PM, Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw wrote: >>> 2011/6/17: >>>> From: Ben Greear >>>> >>>> This series provides ethtool support to set and get the rx-checksu= m >>>> flag, and adds support to the e100 driver. >>> [...] >>> >>> If you want to test the new features approach, you can shave top bi= t >>> off NETIF_F_GSO_MASK (there are two unused bits there). The >>> introducing patch will be +2 lines (+1 dev.c, +1 ethtool.c), >>> implementation in e100: 20 lines less than patch you sent, ethtool >>> userspace changes: none (assuming >>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/96374/ or equivalent applied). >> >> Well, is that patch going in? >> >> How do we get more bits if we need more than two? Totally new >> API? > > See this thread: > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/196684 It's idle for 11 days. Seems dead in the water if you ask me. Thanks, Ben > > Ben. > --=20 Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com