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Message-ID: <20231108151937.uf3ui4z6vy3i2uhu@skbuf>
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2023 17:19:37 +0200
From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
Cc: Hans Ulli Kroll <ulli.kroll@...glemail.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Michał Mirosław <mirq-linux@...e.qmqm.pl>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v3 4/4] net: ethernet: cortina: Checksum only TCP and
 UDP

On Tue, Nov 07, 2023 at 10:54:29AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> It is a bit odd that frames that are neither TCP or UDP
> (such as ICMP or ARP) are still sent to the checksumming
> engine, where they are clearly just ignored.
> 
> Rewrite the logic slightly so that we first check if the
> frame is TCP or UDP, in that case bypass the checksum
> engine.
> 
> Reported-by: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
> ---

If this patch doesn't fix anything and isn't a dependency for anything,
it shouldn't be present in a series targeted for "net". And anyway, I
think it's not needed in general after the discussion on v2.

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