linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/17] Blackfin: convert to generic checksum code

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Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2009 06:03:03 -0400
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	uclinux-dist-devel@...ckfin.uclinux.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/17] Blackfin: convert to generic checksum code

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 07:04, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sunday 14 June 2009, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> The Blackfin port only implemented an optimized version of the
>> csum_tcpudp_nofold function, so convert everything else to the new
>> generic code.
>
> Have you tested this one well? I was as careful as possible with the
> version I added, but it was basically only tested on microblaze, which
> has a different endianess from blackfin. Some areas of the code may be
> sensitive to this.

networking still worked on my BF537-STAMP, but that isnt a very big
test.  i'll keep it locally until we can regression test it harder.

although these kind of issues sounds like a good reason to add some
internal testing code for people to optionally enable ... make sure
things work across endians/bit sizes/assorted changes & improvements
...
-mike
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