netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] drivers/net : avoid some skb->ip

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Date:	Thu, 02 Sep 2010 09:41:35 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] drivers/net : avoid some skb->ip_summed
 initializations

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:25:46 +0200

> fresh skbs have ip_summed set to CHECKSUM_NONE (0)
> 
> We can avoid setting again skb->ip_summed to CHECKSUM_NONE in drivers.
> 
> Introduce skb_CHECKSUM_NONE_assert() helper so that we keep this
> assertion documented in driver sources.
> 
> Change most occurrences of :
> 
> skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
> 
> by :
> 
> skb_CHECKSUM_NONE_assert(skb);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Please, no capital letters in C function names.

I'll apply this with that fixed up.

Thanks.
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