> Right - Essentially it is a usability issue: > People who know how to use TSO (Peter for example) will be > clueful enough to turn it on. Which means the default should > be to protect the clueless and turn it off. > On Andis approach: > Turning TSO off at netdev registration time with a warning > will be a cleaner IMO. Or alternatively introducing a > kernel-config "I know what TSO is" option which is then used > at netdev registration. From a usability perspective it would > make more sense to just keep ethtool as the only way to > configure TSO.
To me this sounds like the most reasonable approach. I've put out my concerns, so I'll get out of the way now so we can move forward in some direction. :-) Cheers, -PJ Waskiewicz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
