netdev - RE: [net 2/2] net: fix a bug of dropping FCoE frames when disabling tx ip checksum

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Date:	Wed, 14 Mar 2012 22:04:06 +0000
From:	"Zou, Yi" <yi.zou@...el.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	"bhutchings@...arflare.com" <bhutchings@...arflare.com>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"gospo@...hat.com" <gospo@...hat.com>,
	"sassmann@...hat.com" <sassmann@...hat.com>
Subject: RE: [net 2/2] net: fix a bug of dropping FCoE frames when disabling
 tx ip checksum

> 
> From: "Zou, Yi" <yi.zou@...el.com>
> Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2012 20:48:03 +0000
> 
> > CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY sounds good to me, if it's ok to be used on the tx
> path 
> > as well, I think so but I am not 100% sure, it'd resolve this for fcoe
> and sctp
> > like, downside is it's a bigger change that requires corresponding
> changes in
> > these protocol driver stacks as well.
> 
> This is definitely the way this bug should be fixed, CHECKSUM_PARTIAL should
> never be set for packets outside of the domain that value was designed for.

Cool, then please drop this patch and I will fix this by changing the fcoe 
protocol stack driver to use CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY instead.

yi

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