netdev - Re: [PATCH] l2tp: fix UDP checksum support

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Date:	Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:24:03 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jchapman@...alix.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] l2tp: fix UDP checksum support

From: James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com>
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:41:08 GMT

> The pppol2tp driver has had broken UDP checksum code for a long
> time. This patch fixes it. If UDP checksums are enabled in the
> tunnel's UDP socket, the L2TP driver now properly validates the
> checksum on receive and fills in the checksum on transmit. If the
> network device has hardware checksum support and is enabled, it is
> used instead of generating/checking the checksum in software.
> 
> Signed-off-by: James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com>

I've applied this to net-next-2.6, thanks James.
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