In order for the network layer to see that AoE requires no checksumming in a generic way, packets should be marked CHECKSUM_NONE.
Rather than relying on the current behavior of alloc_skb, this change causes the aoe driver to explicitly mark its packets as requiring no checksum. Signed-off-by: Ed Cashin <ecas...@coraid.com> --- drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c index de0435e..0ba1b63 100644 --- a/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c +++ b/drivers/block/aoe/aoecmd.c @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ new_skb(ulong len) skb_reset_mac_header(skb); skb_reset_network_header(skb); skb->protocol = __constant_htons(ETH_P_AOE); + skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE; } return skb; } -- 1.7.2.5 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/