Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bgmac: stop advertising TX checksum offload

From: Simon Horman

Date: Fri Nov 06 2026 - 05:08:33 EST


On Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 10:26:21AM +0100, Markus Elfring wrote:
> …
> > Remove the feature flags and the fallback. The stack then computes the
> > checksum before handing the skb to the driver.
> …
>
> How can a “stack” compute anything?

Perhaps your assumption is that stack refers to stack memory.
But my assumption is that stack refers to the software stack,
or slightly more specifically, core parts of the Linux
implementation of networking.