On Thu, 2007-09-13 at 12:01 -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote:
> > I still believe that a much better solution would be to offer drivers a
> > way to "Punt" on a packet.
Absolutely. Define a function they can call to finish the checksum in
the event they have a hardware limitation that prevents the use of
checksum offload on a particular packet.
> I don't disagree with any of that, although working around driver or
> hardware bugs as opposed to fixing them makes me uncomfortable.
Working around chip bugs and quirks on mostly-working widely deployed
hardware is practically and economically necessary. You can't "fix"
chips like you can fix software bugs; the best you can do is pull the
failing component and throw it away in favor of a newer revision.
Consider, also, that many of these chips are soldered to motherboards...
- Bill
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