On Mon, 2013-07-22 at 11:29 -0700, Grant Grundler wrote: > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > ... > > I guess that if a driver does not advertise NETIF_F_SG, this > > skb_linearize() call is not needed : All frames reaching your xmit > > function should already be linear > > As Ben Hutchings pointed out, hw_features is still setting this...but > I'm not sure how that matters. > > ax88179_set_features() doesn't allow setting SG or TSO features. But > I expect it would be "not too difficult" to add such that ethtool > could set those features after boot. [...] It already can. That's what putting feature flags in hw_features does. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html