Michał Mirosław wrote:

On Mon, Nov 01, 2010 at 09:05:25PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:

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It also might be worth defining a standard feature flag for RX checksum
offload, since currently every driver has to maintain its own private
flag.  Though we're running short of feature flags on 32-bit machines.

RX offloads are different in that most devices allow readback of
configured bits, so actually no specific flags are needed.

[...]

Most devices also need resetting from time to time, so those flags still
need to be included in software state.

Ben.

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