netdev - Re: ssh server etc doesn't work anymore with net-2.6

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Message-Id: <20100411.144313.71127091.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sun, 11 Apr 2010 14:43:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	yinghai@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: ssh server etc doesn't work anymore with net-2.6

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Sun, 11 Apr 2010 20:04:03 +0800

> Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> wrote:
>> 
>> After looking at the actual net-2.6 tree I see that it is actually
>> CHECKSUM_PARTIAL that caused this breakage.
>> 
>> The fact that when this was first implemented we didn't use hw
>> checksums on dataless packets might not have been an oversight
>> after all.
> 
> Looks like I was too quick to blame the hardware, the synack
> code can't handle CHECKSUM_PARTIAL so this is probably the real
> cause.
> 
> I will send patches to fix this.

Thanks a lot for figuring this out.

I'll put my original patch (with fixed commit log message!)
and your fixes into net-next-2.6
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