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

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

> Quoting Roland Dreier <rdreier at cisco.com>:
> Subject: Re: [ofa-general] Re: [PATCHv2] IB/ipoib: S/G and HW checksum support
> 
> >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.

In the absence of IP routers, is this worse than SDP or SRP somehow?
If no, maybe we can just disable routing for this case,
and call the option "disable_routing"?

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