Hi, Marek. >> > About the parity -- can we add some flag into the datagram to indicate we >> > want hardware to calculate the parity for that particular datagram for >> > us? And we'd also need to indicate what type of parity. I dunno if this >> > is worth the hassle. >> >> This is HW configuration property, it does not belong to datagram. Also >> for TX channels, parity could be two kinds: odd and even, for RX it >> is only on/off.
> There are datagrams which do contain parity and ones which do not contain it, > correct ? Thus, it's a property of that particular datagram. For RX side it is both: datagram and HW (is it checked by receiver or not) But for TX side it is HW property of transmitter, either OFF or ON (odd or even). -- Best regards, Andrey Vostrikov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
