linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] blackfin checksum annotations

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Date:	Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:16:23 +0200
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	viro@...IV.linux.org.uk, cooloney@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] blackfin checksum annotations

On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 10:26:44PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
> Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 06:22:26 +0100
> 
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
> 
> Since these are networking knobs and Al tends to test his
> changes, I'll apply this to the net-2.6 tree.

I don't think such arch specific patches should go in via net-2.6.
You did that for a very similar patch for s390 and it was subtly broken:

See:
f994aae1bd8e4813d59a2ed64d17585fe42d03fc
("[NET]: S390 checksum annotations and cleanups.")

and

afbc1e994ddcf3b6fe2dc928ee8dc31a5d0c3118
("[S390] Fix TCP/UDP pseudo header checksum computation.")
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