From: "Michał Mirosław" <mirqus@gmail.com>
To: greearb@candelatech.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] net: Support getting/setting RX-FCS in drivers.
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:36:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTikhUiVR-+DORohviSVTpQJLZQuTCQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1308285007-11302-2-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com>
2011/6/17 <greearb@candelatech.com>:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
>
> This will allow us to enable/disable having the Ethernet
> frame checksum appended to the skb. Enabling this is
> useful when sniffing packets.
>
> In particular, this can be used to test logic that allows
> a NIC to receive all frames, even ones with bad checksums.
You want to silently run away from extending dev->features field? ;-)
Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-17 7:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-17 4:30 [RFC 0/2] Allow NICs to pass Frame Checksum up the stack greearb
2011-06-17 4:30 ` [RFC 1/2] net: Support getting/setting RX-FCS in drivers greearb
2011-06-17 7:36 ` Michał Mirosław [this message]
2011-06-17 12:20 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-06-17 15:33 ` Ben Greear
2011-06-17 16:00 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-06-17 4:30 ` [RFC 2/2] e100: Support receiving Ethernet FCS greearb
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