netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] drivers/net/oki-semi: Donot recompute IP header checksum

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Date:	Sat, 28 Apr 2012 22:00:22 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	roy.qing.li@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/2] drivers/net/oki-semi: Donot recompute IP
 header checksum

From: roy.qing.li@...il.com
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 15:01:13 +0800

> From: RongQing.Li <roy.qing.li@...il.com>
> 
> If I understand correct, NETIF_F_IP_CSUM only means the hardware 
> will compute the TCP/UDP checksum, IP checksum is always computed 
> in software
> 
> So as a workround of hardware unable to compute small packages 
> checksum, do not need to compute IP header checksum.
> 
> Signed-off-by: RongQing.Li <roy.qing.li@...il.com>

Applied.
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