Re: [PATCH net] net: bcmgenet: always enable status blocks

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Thu Mar 19 2020 - 12:31:23 EST


Le 2020-03-17 Ã 17:05, Doug Berger a ÃcritÂ:
> The hardware offloading of the NETIF_F_HW_CSUM and NETIF_F_RXCSUM
> features requires the use of Transmit Status Blocks before transmit
> frame data and Receive Status Blocks before receive frame data to
> carry the checksum information.
>
> Unfortunately, these status blocks are currently only enabled when
> the NETIF_F_HW_CSUM feature is enabled. As a result NETIF_F_RXCSUM
> will not actually be offloaded to the hardware unless both it and
> NETIF_F_HW_CSUM are enabled. Fortunately, that is the default
> configuration.
>
> This commit addresses this issue by always enabling the use of
> status blocks on both transmit and receive frames. Further, it
> replaces the use of a dedicated flag within the driver private
> data structure with direct use of the netdev features flags.
>
> Fixes: 810155397890 ("net: bcmgenet: use CHECKSUM_COMPLETE for NETIF_F_RXCSUM")
> Signed-off-by: Doug Berger <opendmb@xxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
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Florian