From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-2?Q?Micha=B3_Miros=B3aw?= Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] net: Support getting/setting RX-FCS in drivers. Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 09:36:31 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1308285007-11302-1-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> <1308285007-11302-2-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org To: greearb@candelatech.com Return-path: Received: from mail-qy0-f181.google.com ([209.85.216.181]:48097 "EHLO mail-qy0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755529Ab1FQHgw convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 17 Jun 2011 03:36:52 -0400 Received: by qyg14 with SMTP id 14so1181837qyg.19 for ; Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:36:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <1308285007-11302-2-git-send-email-greearb@candelatech.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 2011/6/17 : > From: Ben Greear > > This will allow us to enable/disable having the Ethernet > frame checksum appended to the skb. =C2=A0Enabling 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, Micha=C5=82 Miros=C5=82aw