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From: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
Cc: "Rosen Penev" <rosenp@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, bcm-kernel-feedback-list@broadcom.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Andrew Lunn" <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@kernel.org>,
	"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
	"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	"Rafał Miłecki" <rafal@milecki.pl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: bgmac: stop advertising TX checksum offload
Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2026 09:39:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261106093925.GC865646@horms.kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <225a66e4-e1a7-422b-8546-5cf7a027e063@web.de>

On Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 10:26:21AM +0100, Markus Elfring wrote:
> …
> > Remove the feature flags and the fallback. The stack then computes the
> > checksum before handing the skb to the driver.
> …
> 
> How can a “stack” compute anything?

Perhaps your assumption is that stack refers to stack memory.
But my assumption is that stack refers to the software stack,
or slightly more specifically, core parts of the Linux
implementation of networking.

  reply	other threads:[~2026-11-06  9:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-11-02 21:58 Rosen Penev
2026-11-03  9:26 ` Markus Elfring
2026-11-06  9:39   ` Simon Horman [this message]
2026-11-06  9:39 ` Simon Horman

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