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From: hayeswang <hayeswang@realtek.com>
To: 'David Miller' <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: <romieu@fr.zoreil.com>, <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	<netdev@vger.kernel.org>, 'nic_swsd' <nic_swsd@realtek.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC] r8169 : why SG / TX checksum are default disabled
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 10:10:08 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <208C5E31B39C438F831D9578F88CAD71@realtek.com.tw> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120723.235931.725099984853258732.davem@davemloft.net>

 David Miller [mailto:davem@davemloft.net] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 3:00 PM
> To: Hayeswang
> Cc: romieu@fr.zoreil.com; eric.dumazet@gmail.com; 
> netdev@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: [RFC] r8169 : why SG / TX checksum are default disabled
> 
[...]
> 
> I still have not seen a good explanation why the chip modifies fields
> in the packet, such as the length, when we ask it only to compute the
> checksum?

I don't know the history and the detail about the bug. I think only our designer
could answer your question. I guess it is a careless mistake.
 
Best Regards,
Hayes

  reply	other threads:[~2012-07-25  2:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-07-17 22:39 [RFC] r8169 : why SG / TX checksum are default disabled Eric Dumazet
2012-07-17 23:40 ` Francois Romieu
2012-07-18  6:45   ` hayeswang
2012-07-18 16:23     ` David Miller
2012-07-18 20:12       ` Francois Romieu
2012-07-18 20:28         ` David Miller
2012-07-18 21:44           ` Francois Romieu
2012-07-18 22:05             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-07-18 22:24               ` David Miller
2012-07-20  7:14                 ` hayeswang
2012-07-20 10:08                   ` Francois Romieu
2012-07-20 16:01                     ` hayeswang
2012-07-20 16:28                       ` David Miller
2012-07-20 21:01                       ` Francois Romieu
2012-07-24  6:34                         ` hayeswang
2012-07-24  6:59                           ` David Miller
2012-07-25  2:10                             ` hayeswang [this message]
2012-07-20 16:17                   ` David Miller
2012-07-20  2:11         ` hayeswang
2012-07-18  8:55   ` Eric Dumazet

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