netdev - Re: [PATCH net-2.6] sfc: Really allow RX checksum offload to be disabled

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Message-Id: <20091028.024940.181264224.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:49:40 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] sfc: Really allow RX checksum offload to be
 disabled

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:44:33 +0000

> We have never checked the efx_nic::rx_checksum_enabled flag everywhere
> we should, and since the switch to GRO we don't check it anywhere.
> It's simplest to check it in the one place where we initialise the
> per-packet checksummed flag.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
> Cc: stable@...nel.org
> ---
> I'm not sure whether this is serious enough to merit a stable update.
> It's not a recent regression.

This patch only applies to net-next-2.6, so I can't see how it could
be a -stable candidate :-)

So I've applied it there.
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