netdev - Re: [NET]: Allow partial checksums to be forwarded

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Message-ID: <4608A152.1060501@osdl.org>
Date:	Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:45:06 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...l.org>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NET]: Allow partial checksums to be forwarded

Herbert Xu wrote:
> Hi Dave:
>
> Looks like I forgot to finish the checksum stuff for Xen last time around.
>
> [NET]: Allow partial checksums to be forwarded
>
> Right now Xen has a horrible hack that lets it forward packets with
> partial checksums.  One of the reasons that CHECKSUM_PARTIAL was added
> is so that we can get rid of this hack (where it creates an extra bit
> in the skbuff to essentially mirror ip_summed without being destroyed
> by the forwarding code).
>
> So here is the patch that lets us get rid of the hack by preserving
> CHECKSUM_PARTIAL on forwarded packets.
>
> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
>
> Cheers,
>   

Looks okay.
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