Subject: Re: [ethtool] ethtool: Remove UDP Fragmentation Offload use from ethtool

From: "John W. Linville" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:22:52 -0400

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 08:00:11AM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-08-28 at 15:38 +0300, Tariq Toukan wrote:
> > From: Shaker Daibes <[email-masked]>
> > 
> > UFO was removed in kernel, here we remove it in ethtool app.
> > 
> > Fixes the following issue:
> > Features for ens8:
> > Cannot get device udp-fragmentation-offload settings: Operation not supported
> > 
> > Tested with "make check"
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Shaker Daibes <[email-masked]>
> > Signed-off-by: Tariq Toukan <[email-masked]>
> > ---
> 
> 
> Hi guys
> 
> I would rather remove the warning, but leave the ability to switch UFO
> on machines running old kernel but a recent ethtool.
> 
> ethtool does not need to be downgraded every time we boot an old
> kernel ;)

No, definitely not.
 
> Thanks !

Tariq, will you be reworking this as Eric suggests?

John
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