On Fri, Dec 4, 2015 at 12:06 PM, David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa <redacted>
Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2015 20:59:05 +0100

quoted

Yes, I agree, I am totally with you here. If generic offloading can be
realized by NICs I am totally with you that this should be the way to
go. I don't see that coming in the next (small number of) years, so I
don't see a reason to stop this patchset.

If I just apply this and say "yeah ok", the message is completely lost
and your prediction about "small number of years" indeed will occur.

However if I push back hard on this, as I will, then the message has
some chance of seeping back to the people designing these chips.

So that's what I'm going to do, like it or not.

Or can someone convince me that someone who understand this stuff
is telling the hardware guys to universally put 2's complement
checksums into the descriptors?

We're talking about 1's complement checksum (RFC1701). Just to be clear :-)