netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: fec: remove HW IP header checksum for IPV6 frame

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Message-ID: <20140617232151.GO23430@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk>
Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 2014 00:21:51 +0100
From:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	b38611@...escale.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fec: remove HW IP header checksum for IPV6 frame

On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 03:34:07PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:31:21 +0100
> > As I suspected, just applying the above two hunks fixes the problem
> > I was seeing.
> 
> Someone please respin the patch so that it's just these two hunks and that
> the commit message accurately describes the real situation.

I'm hoping for a reply from Freescale before I give an explicit tested-by
against this.  It would be nice to have some explicit confirmation that
they would be happy with a reduced patch.  It may be that the hardware
really does need the IP header checksum bit cleared for non-IPv4
packets.

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