Re: misc/36580 (sk(4) man page has contradictory info. re. checksum support)

["David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/36580; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "David H. Gutteridge" <dhgutteridge%sympatico.ca@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/36580 (sk(4) man page has contradictory info. re. checksum 
support)
Date: Sun, 5 Feb 2012 15:27:46 -0500

 Since the Hackathon is approaching, I thought I'd take a look at old
 PRs I'd filed that were still open.  In this case, it appears from
 code inspection that the answer is that IPv4 hardware checksum off-
 loading is not supported, given there's only one reference in the
 most current version of if_sk.c that appears relevant.  On line 1397
 I see "ifp->if_capabilities = 0;" and that's it...  And from looking
 at the revision history for the man page, it was imported with the
 "is supported" statement, and someone added "is not supported" under
 the bugs section later.
 
 Another question: the man page still says "This driver is 
 experimental" under bugs.  There have been some revisions made to
 the driver in the intervening years, is it still considered such?
 
 Dave