netdev - Re: [PATCH] ehea: Fix a checksum issue on the receive path

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Date:	Wed, 13 Oct 2010 11:06:14 -0300
From:	Breno Leitao <leitao@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, fubar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ehea: Fix a checksum issue on the receive path

On 10/09/2010 02:31 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Also hardware checksum can be wrong/broken. By passing up a packet
> which the driver thinks is bad, the software can still work.
I see. Unfortunately ehea driver is dropping the packets that have a 
wrong checksum. I will work on the fix, and soon I will send the patch.

David,

Just to clarify, this patch that started this thead is not invalidated 
by this "problem". So, I'd like to see this patch committed on your 
tree. Does it make sense?

Thanks
Breno
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