netdev - Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: Correctly obtain protocol information on transmit

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Message-ID: <20080213161337.GH856@gospo.usersys.redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 13 Feb 2008 11:13:37 -0500
From:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
To:	Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>
Cc:	jeff@...zik.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, andy@...yhouse.net,
	e1000-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ixgbe: Correctly obtain protocol information on transmit

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:20:33PM -0800, Auke Kok wrote:
> In reply to "RE: [Fwd: [PATCH 2.6.25] ixgbe/igb: correctly obtain protocol
> information on transmit]" from Andy Gospodarek:
> 
> The driver was incorrectly looking at socket headers for
> protocol information, needed for checksumming offload. Fix
> this by not looking at the socket but frame headers instead.
> 
> This disregards extension headers but it's unclear that linux
> generates those anyway.
> 
> Tested by Andy Gospodarek.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@...el.com>

This works well for me too.

Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>

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