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Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 16:15:59 -0700
From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
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To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add ETHTOOL_[GS]FLAGS sub-ioctls
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David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
> 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
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