Steve Whitehouse writes:
> Do you mean that devices will not be able to indicate support of SG seperately
> from hw checksum or that the IP zerocopy will simply ignore devices which
> do not have both ?
IP will ignore devices which do not have both.
> DECnet assumes that the mac level checksum will detect all errors and does
> not have a checksum of its own on data, so it would only need SG to benefit
> from the zerocopy framework,
Which is just fine.
Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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