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Chelsio/netmap: propagate disabled IFCAP checksum flags to kernel
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Authored by jch on Nov 11 2018, 9:51 PM.
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This is the companion change of D17910:

Once unsupported / unneeded hardware flags are disabled from netmap,
it is needed to propagate them to kernel via ifp->if_hwassist. Otherwise,
packet might be sent without checksum as the kernel was expecting
the NIC to do it.

Submitted by: Marc de la Gueronniere <mdelagueronniere@verisign.com>
MFC after: 1 week
Sponsored by: Verisign, Inc.

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