netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IPV4] UDP: Always checksum even if without socket filter

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Message-Id: <20071119.221531.142096724.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2007 22:15:31 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	billfink@...dspring.com
Cc:	andi@...stfloor.org, wangchen@...fujitsu.com,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IPV4] UDP: Always checksum even if without socket
 filter

From: Bill Fink <billfink@...dspring.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:29:45 -0500

> But the best approach seems to be just not to count
> it in the first place until tha application has actually received
> the packet, since as Herbert pointed out, that's what the RFC
> actually specifies for the meaning of the udpInDatagrams counter.

I agree and would be happy to apply such a patch :)
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