netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 02/20] tcp: remove dead code in __tcp_v6_send

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Date:   Mon, 15 Nov 2021 18:57:21 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Soheil Hassas Yeganeh <soheil@...gle.com>,
        Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
        Arjun Roy <arjunroy@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 02/20] tcp: remove dead code in __tcp_v6_send_check()

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 6:48 PM David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com> wrote:
>
> On 11/15/21 12:02 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> >
> > For some reason, I forgot to change __tcp_v6_send_check() at
> > the same time I removed (ip_summed == CHECKSUM_PARTIAL) check
> > in __tcp_v4_send_check()
> >
> > Fixes: 98be9b12096f ("tcp: remove dead code after CHECKSUM_PARTIAL adoption")
>
> Given the Fixes, should this go one through -net?

It is only removing dead code, and going through net-next is not a big deal.

No real 'bug', just a way for me to point out that we had a similar
change in IPv4 for years and nothing bad happened.