Re: [patch 3/4] Configure out ethtool support

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Jul 31 2008 - 06:57:25 EST


From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:54:24 +0100

> Other potential approaches include not enabling LRO by default if
> !CONFIG_ETHTOOL. Or having the driver(s) which _do_ enable LRO by
> default 'select ETHTOOL'.

It is possible for us to generically enable LRO for every device,
since it is a software algorithm. And likely we will do something
like this in the not too distant future.
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