From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 12:41:00 +1100
> Hi Dave: > > [UDP]: Clean up UDP-Lite receive checksum > > This patch eliminates some duplicate code for the verification of > receive checksums between UDP-Lite and UDP. It does this by > introducing __skb_checksum_complete_head which is identical to > __skb_checksum_complete_head apart from the fact that it takes > a length parameter rather than computing the first skb->len bytes. > > As a result UDP-Lite will be able to use hardware checksum offload > for packets which do not use partial coverage checksums. It also > means that UDP-Lite loopback no longer does unnecessary checksum > verification. > > If any NICs start support UDP-Lite this would also start working > automatically. > > This patch removes the assumption that msg_flags has MSG_TRUNC clear > upon entry in recvmsg. > > Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Also applied, thanks a lot. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
