From: Alexander Duyck <redacted>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 11:34:47 -0800

I'm only really interested in what options the customers has in order
to get this all configured.  As long as there eventually ends up being
some path forward I'll be good with whatever ends up happening, though
my preference would be to see some option available in the kernel.

Fair enough.

BTW, I don't entirely buy your hardware complexity argument.

When we're looking at checksumming offload via 1's complement in the
RX descriptor, that is heaps simpler than having a seperate RTL path
for N different encapsulation technologies and/or protocols.

I'd rather maintain a single 1's complement circuit than N header
parser engines that trigger the sum at the right range.

There is definitely long term maintainability and stability value in
this.