Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Allow NICs to pass Frame Checksum up the stack.

From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:58:55 -0700

On 06/17/2011 01:57 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 13:48 -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>> On 06/17/2011 01:00 PM, Michał Mirosław wrote:
>>> 2011/6/17<[email-masked]>:
>>>> From: Ben Greear<[email-masked]>
>>>>
>>>> This series provides ethtool support to set and get the rx-checksum
>>>> flag, and adds support to the e100 driver.
>>> [...]
>>>
>>> If you want to test the new features approach, you can shave top bit
>>> off NETIF_F_GSO_MASK (there are two unused bits there). The
>>> introducing patch will be +2 lines (+1 dev.c, +1 ethtool.c),
>>> implementation in e100: 20 lines less than patch you sent, ethtool
>>> userspace changes: none (assuming
>>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/96374/ or equivalent applied).
>>
>> Well, is that patch going in?
>>
>> How do we get more bits if we need more than two?  Totally new
>> API?
>
> See this thread:
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/196684

It's idle for 11 days.  Seems dead in the water if you ask me.

Thanks,
Ben

> Ben.

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