netdev - Re: [PATCH] atl1: deal with hardware rx checksum bug

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Message-ID: <489A8E85.2080008@garzik.org>
Date:	Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:56:21 -0400
From:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>
To:	Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@...lsouth.net>
CC:	csnook@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] atl1: deal with hardware rx checksum bug

Jay Cliburn wrote:
> The L1 hardware contains a bug that flags a fragmented IP packet
> as having an incorrect TCP/UDP checksum, even though the packet
> is perfectly valid and its checksum is correct.  There's no way to
> distinguish between one of these good packets and a packet that
> actually contains a TCP/UDP checksum error, so all we can do is
> allow the packet to be handed up to the higher layers and let it
> be sorted out there.
> 
> Add a comment describing this condition and remove the code that
> currently fails to handle what may or may not be a checksum error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@...lsouth.net>
> ---
>  drivers/net/atlx/atl1.c |   19 +++++++++++--------

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