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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-04-08 21:48:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2012-04-08 21:48:52 +0200 |
| commit | e75d660672ddd11704b7f0fdb8ff21968587b266 (patch) | |
| tree | ccb9c107744c10b553c0373e450bee3971d16c00 /Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt | |
| parent | atm: fix comments (diff) | |
| parent | Linux 3.4-rc2 (diff) | |
| download | linux-e75d660672ddd11704b7f0fdb8ff21968587b266.tar.xz linux-e75d660672ddd11704b7f0fdb8ff21968587b266.zip | |
Merge branch 'master' into for-next
Merge with latest Linus' tree, as I have incoming patches
that fix code that is newer than current HEAD of for-next.
Conflicts:
drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169.c
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt b/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt index 4b1c0dcef84c..4164f5c02e4b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/netdev-features.txt @@ -152,3 +152,16 @@ NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED should be set for devices which can't cope with VLAN headers. Some drivers set this because the cards can't handle the bigger MTU. [FIXME: Those cases could be fixed in VLAN code by allowing only reduced-MTU VLANs. This may be not useful, though.] + +* rx-fcs + +This requests that the NIC append the Ethernet Frame Checksum (FCS) +to the end of the skb data. This allows sniffers and other tools to +read the CRC recorded by the NIC on receipt of the packet. + +* rx-all + +This requests that the NIC receive all possible frames, including errored +frames (such as bad FCS, etc). This can be helpful when sniffing a link with +bad packets on it. Some NICs may receive more packets if also put into normal +PROMISC mdoe. |