Cathy Zhou wrote:
> I am adding this in the PSARC fast-track, and the diffs are posted below. 
> The following link is also updated
> 
> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/clearview/uv_addendum_fasttrack

...

> +    ** HCKSUM_VLANCKSUM bit of MAC_CAPAB_HCKSUM
> +
> +       The HCKSUM_VLANCKSUM bit can be set in combination with other
> +       MAC_CAPAB_HCKSUM bits (HCKSUM_INET_PARTIAL, HCKSUM_INET_FULL_V4,
> +       HCKSUM_INET_FULL_V6, or/and HCKSUM_IPHDRCKSUM), to indicate that
> +       a MAC is capable of doing the specified hardware checksum offloading
> +       for VLAN frames.

Can you add to the specification an explanation of why this is needed? 
In other words, GLDv3 previously (wrongly) assumed that all devices which 
claimed to support various flavors of hardware checksum offload could so 
with VLAN-tagged frames.  This flag is presumably needed for some 
potential drivers out there that do hardware checksum, but only for 
non-vlan-tagged frames (correct?).

Do we know of any such drivers offhand?

-Seb
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