netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] sunvnet: add support for IPv6 checksum offloads

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Message-Id: <20170716.163627.1466579407318984833.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Sun, 16 Jul 2017 16:36:27 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     shannon.nelson@...cle.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sunvnet: add support for IPv6 checksum
 offloads

From: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...cle.com>
Date: Thu,  6 Jul 2017 16:57:10 -0700

> The original code didn't handle non-IPv4 packets very well, so the
> offload advertising had to be scaled back down to just IP.  Here we
> add the bits needed to support TCP and UDP packets over IPv6 and
> turn the offload advertising back on.
> 
> Orabug: 26289579
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@...cle.com>

Applied.