netdev - Re: [NET]: Warn about GSO/checksum abuse

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Date:	Mon, 23 Apr 2007 22:37:19 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NET]: Warn about GSO/checksum abuse

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2007 13:55:42 +1000

> [NET]: Warn about GSO/checksum abuse
> 
> Now that Patrick has added the code to deal with GSO in netfilter,
> we no longer need the crutch that computes partial checksums just
> before transmission.
> 
> This patch turns this into a warning again.  If this goes OK, we
> can then turn it into a BUG_ON and remove the gso_send_check cruft.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>

Thanks for keeping track of this.

Applied, thanks Herbert.
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