Re: [PATCH net-2.6] sfc: Really allow RX checksum offload to be disabled

[Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>]

On Wed, 2009-10-28 at 02:49 -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
> Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:44:33 +0000
> 
> > We have never checked the efx_nic::rx_checksum_enabled flag everywhere
> > we should, and since the switch to GRO we don't check it anywhere.
> > It's simplest to check it in the one place where we initialise the
> > per-packet checksummed flag.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
> > Cc: stable@kernel.org
> > ---
> > I'm not sure whether this is serious enough to merit a stable update.
> > It's not a recent regression.
> 
> This patch only applies to net-next-2.6, so I can't see how it could
> be a -stable candidate :-)
> 
> So I've applied it there.

The register name update in net-next-2.6 changed the context for this
patch.  I'll send a new patch that will apply to the earlier versions.

Ben.

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