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> From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <li...@armlinux.org.uk>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2021 12:18 PM
> To: Stefan Chulski <stef...@marvell.com>
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> Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH net-next] net: mvpp2: Add parsing support for
> different IPv4 IHL values
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> On Tue, Apr 13, 2021 at 11:45:31AM +0300, stef...@marvell.com wrote:
> > From: Stefan Chulski <stef...@marvell.com>
> >
> > Add parser entries for different IPv4 IHL values.
> > Each entry will set the L4 header offset according to the IPv4 IHL field.
> > L3 header offset will set during the parsing of the IPv4 protocol.
> 
> What is the impact of this commit? Is something broken at the moment, if so
> what? Does this need to be backported to stable kernels?
> 
> These are key questions, of which the former two should be covered in
> every commit message so that the reason for the change can be known.
> It's no good just describing what is being changed in the commit without also
> describing why the change is being made.
> 
> Thanks.

Due to missed parser support for IP header length > 20, RX IPv4 checksum 
offload fail.

Regards. 

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