Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: Support RXFCS feature flag.

From: Ben Hutchings <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:22:08 +0100

On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 16:13 -0700, [email-masked] wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
> 
> When set, this causes the Ethernet FCS to be appended
> to the end of the skb.
> 
> Useful for sniffing packets.
[...]
> --- a/include/linux/ethtool.h
> +++ b/include/linux/ethtool.h
> @@ -347,6 +347,7 @@ struct ethtool_perm_addr {
>   * flag differs from the read-only value.
>   */
>  enum ethtool_flags {
> +	ETH_FLAG_RXFCS		= (1 << 0),	/* Append FCS to skb */
>  	ETH_FLAG_TXVLAN		= (1 << 7),	/* TX VLAN offload enabled */
>  	ETH_FLAG_RXVLAN		= (1 << 8),	/* RX VLAN offload enabled */
>  	ETH_FLAG_LRO		= (1 << 15),	/* LRO is enabled */
[...]

No, all new features should be accessed through the
ETHTOOL_{G,S}FEATURES commands only.

Ben.

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