[ofa-general] Re: [PATCHv2] IB/ipoib: S/G and HW checksum support

Roland Dreier rdreier at cisco.com
Thu Sep 6 05:12:35 PDT 2007


>Assuming routing works, even if this means you trust the IB-Eth gateway not to
>corrupt the packet, I'm looking for name that makes this clear.

I haven't had a chance to do much this week (still at the kernel
summit).  However, my view is that this patch is *very* dangerous and
I don't like it much.  But maybe if we name the option something like
"enable_silent_data_corruption" that would be sufficient warning for users.

 - R.



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