Andrew Gallatin wrote: > Cathy Zhou writes: > > > > But adding this bit can provide completeness, it can be used by GLDv3 > > drivers (as requested by several person involved in the discussion), and a > > legacy driver can choose to support HW checksum for VLANs if it would like > > to. But I would think the latter requires the change of the legacy driver, > > so that I don't know how likely it is. > > To clarify, I didn't actually request it unless something was planning to > assume that drivers w/o VLAN support are "dumb" and can't do > checksums on VLAN frames.
We won't. Today we actually we assume that all driver will be able to do checksums on both non-tagged and VLAN-tagged frames, as long as it claims the HW checksum support. Since it proves that the additional amendment is not related to UV, and there should be more thought put on the HW checksum support in general, I am going to drop this change, and keep the fast-track as it was. Thanks - Cathy _______________________________________________ networking-discuss mailing list [email protected]
