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

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Date:	Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:25:23 +0800
From:	Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	billfink@...dspring.com, andi@...stfloor.org,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IPV4] UDP: Always checksum even if without socket
 filter

David Miller said the following on 2007-11-20 14:15:
> 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 :)
> 
> 
> 

I want to wait for more suggestions until make such patch.
Because this solution leads to troubles with some apps, such as NFS.
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6660#c2)

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