netdev - Re: [PATCH] r8169: fix checksum broken

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Date:	Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:55:21 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	romieu@...zoreil.com
Cc:	shanwei@...fujitsu.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, jgarzik@...ox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] r8169: fix checksum broken

From: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2010 22:01:23 +0100

> Shan Wei <shanwei@...fujitsu.com> :
> [...]
>> If these are right, driver will set ip_summed with CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY for other
>> upper protocol, e.g. sctp, igmp protocol. This will cause protocol stack ignores 
>> checksum check for packets with invalid checksum. 
> 
> The documentation of these bits is identical for the 8139c+ and the 8169.

Also applied, thank you.
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