Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 03:57:08 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: Re: [patch 3/4] Configure out ethtool support
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:54:24 +0100

> Other potential approaches include not enabling LRO by default if 
> !CONFIG_ETHTOOL. Or having the driver(s) which _do_ enable LRO by
> default 'select ETHTOOL'.

It is possible for us to generically enable LRO for every device,
since it is a software algorithm.  And likely we will do something
like this in the not too distant future.
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