Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add ETHTOOL_[GS]FLAGS sub-ioctls

From: Rick Jones <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:15:59 -0700

David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 15:40:02 -0700
> 
> 
>>For GSO on output, is there a generic fallback for any driver that
>>does not specifically implement GSO?
> 
> 
> Absolutely, in fact that's mainly what it's there for.
> 
> I don't think there is any issue.  The knob is there via
> ethtool for people who really want to disable it.

Just to be paranoid (who me?) we are then at a point where what happened 
a couple months ago with forwarding between 10G and IPoIB won't happen 
again - where things failed because a 10G NIC had LRO enabled by default?

rick jones