ethtool issues in relation to lro and solarflare driver

Solution Unverified - Updated -

Issue

We have encountered two ethtool-3.5 bugs affecting us in RHEL 6.4 (kernel 2.6.32-358.14.1.el6.x86_64) with Solarflare OpenOnload 201210_u2. Solarflare has logged the details in Red Hat’s Bugzilla.

RHEL6.4 Allows ethtool to toggle non-existant LRO flag in bundled solarflare network driver
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010840

ethtool fails with error 92 when trying to toggle LRO option
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1010843

Environment

Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6.4

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