diff mbox series

[1/3] docs: segmentation-offloads.txt: update for UFO depreciation

Message ID 20180214070533.28377-2-dja@axtens.net
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
Headers show
Series Updates to segmentation-offloads.txt | expand

Commit Message

Daniel Axtens Feb. 14, 2018, 7:05 a.m. UTC 
UFO is deprecated except for tuntap and packet per 0c19f846d582,
("net: accept UFO datagrams from tuntap and packet"). Update UFO
docs to reflect this.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net>
---
 Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff mbox series

Patch

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt b/Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt
index 2f09455a993a..2cda12ab7075 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/segmentation-offloads.txt
@@ -49,6 +49,10 @@  datagram into multiple IPv4 fragments.  Many of the requirements for UDP
 fragmentation offload are the same as TSO.  However the IPv4 ID for
 fragments should not increment as a single IPv4 datagram is fragmented.
 
+UFO is deprecated: modern kernels will no longer generate UFO skbs, but can
+still receive them from tuntap and similar devices. Offload of UDP-based
+tunnel protocols is still supported.
+
 IPIP, SIT, GRE, UDP Tunnel, and Remote Checksum Offloads
 ========================================================