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Re: [NET]: TSO requires SG, enforce this at device registry.

To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [NET]: TSO requires SG, enforce this at device registry.
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 22:57:00 -0700
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <417C9431.6030505@pobox.com>
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On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 01:50:41 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> 1) Given current driver implementations of ethtool ioctls, sysadmin is 
> free to create a combination of bits that are IMHO a bug.  One can argue 
> that this is an extension of "root can shoot himself in the foot", so 
> who knows.

I made a followon posting proposing ethtool changes which
would enforce the rules there too, did you see it?

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