Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Wed Jan 31 2001 - 11:04:21 EST


> 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 ?
>
> 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,

Ditto IPX

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