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Re: Updated zerocopy patch up on kernel.org

To: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Updated zerocopy patch up on kernel.org
From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 20:23:17 -0500
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Organization: MandrakeSoft
References: <200101100055.QAA07674@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
> Nothing interesting or new, just merges up with the latest 2.4.1-pre1
> patch from Linus.
> 
> ftp.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/zerocopy-2.4.1p1-1.diff.gz
> 
> I haven't had any reports from anyone, which must mean that it is
> working perfectly fine and adds no new bugs, testers are thus in
> nirvana and thus have nothing to report.  :-)

Is there any value to supporting fragments in a driver which doesn't do
hardware checksumming?  IIRC Alexey had a patch to do such for Tulip,
but I don't see it in the above patchset.

        Jeff


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