netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next,v2] hyperv: Add handling of IP header with option field in netvsc_set

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Message-Id: <20141014.220505.586366171329066629.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 14 Oct 2014 22:05:05 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	haiyangz@...rosoft.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kys@...rosoft.com, olaf@...fle.de,
	jasowang@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next,v2] hyperv: Add handling of IP header with
 option field in netvsc_set_hash()

From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2014 20:05:17 +0000

> In case that the IP header has optional field at the end, this patch will
> get the port numbers after that field, and compute the hash.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
> Reviewed-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>

This isn't even close to what I asked for.

I said to remove all of this by-hand header parsing code in the
hyperv driver, and use the generic code networking facilities
that exist already to do this.
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