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Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 00:29:42 -0800 (PST) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: herbert@...dor.apana.org.au Cc: jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, john.r.fastabend@...el.com Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH v2] net: consolidate netif_needs_gso() checks From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Date: Sun, 28 Feb 2010 08:29:53 +0800 > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 08:17:09AM -0800, David Miller wrote: >> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> >> Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 23:52:45 +0800 >> >> > I just did a grep on net/sched and couldn't see anything obvious >> > that uses transport_header. >> >> I think skb_checksum_help() would be such a use and I >> see a reference in net/sched/sch_netem.c > > AFAICS skb_checksum_help uses csum_start and not transport_header. > Has this changed recently? > > Once upon a time some drivers used transport_header instead of > csum_start, but even those seem to be gone mostly so one day we > could remove this setting completely. Ok, then this clears up all of my concerns. Thanks Herbert. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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