Re: [PATCH] [BRIDGE] Set features based on slave's ones

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Jon Mason <jdmason@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 May 2005 12:47:55 -0500

> My point is that some features the user might want enabled regardless of 
> whether all devices support them.  An example of this is where a system has 
> hardware checksum support for all devices except one.  In this case, it would 
> be benefitial to have this device do the checksum in software (via 
> skb_checksum_help() call in dev_queue_xmit()).

If "SG and checksumming is so common these days" as others have
stated, what you are describing is a totally uncommon scenerio.  What
Catalin is proposing is infinitely better than what we have today.