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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 13:38:44 -0800 (PST)
To: Steve Whitehouse <Steve@ChyGwyn.com>
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Subject: Re: [UPDATE] Zerocopy patches, against 2.4.1-pre10
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Steve Whitehouse writes:
 > 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 ?

IP will 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,

Which is just fine.

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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