From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 30 17:30:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from prism.flugsvamp.com (cb58709-a.mdsn1.wi.home.com [24.17.241.9]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ABE6837B424 for ; Wed, 30 May 2001 17:30:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jlemon@flugsvamp.com) Received: (from jlemon@localhost) by prism.flugsvamp.com (8.11.0/8.11.0) id f4V0Sbu77564; Wed, 30 May 2001 19:28:37 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jlemon) Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 19:28:37 -0500 (CDT) From: Jonathan Lemon Message-Id: <200105310028.f4V0Sbu77564@prism.flugsvamp.com> To: tlambert@primenet.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PATCH: media option for ethernet hw checksum X-Newsgroups: local.mail.freebsd-current In-Reply-To: Organization: Cc: Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article you write: >Here is a patch I have locally that would be useful for Bill Paul, >I think. I know, we could use "flag0" for this, but it seems to >me that this will be an increasingly common option in hadware. > >I know Bill had to set this manually as a compile time flag, for >lack of an option (same for the JMB Intel Gigabit card driver). Um, why? It shouldn't be an option. Either the card supports it and it's turned on, or it doesn't and it's turned off. If anything, perhaps there should be a sysctl to enable/disable all hw checksums for those who want a more end-to-end solution. -- Jonathan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message