From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Newall Subject: Re: Bad checksum on bridge with IP options Date: Mon, 12 May 2014 20:18:31 +0930 Message-ID: <5370A6FF.3040902@davidnewall.com> References: <536F8C0F.4090206@davidnewall.com> ,<537082FC.2030505@davidnewall.com> ,<5370A1A8.50604@davidnewall.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Lukas Tribus , Netdev Return-path: Received: from hawking.rebel.net.au ([203.20.69.83]:33937 "EHLO hawking.rebel.net.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752749AbaELKsg (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 May 2014 06:48:36 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 12/05/14 20:01, Lukas Tribus wrote: >> >I don't suppose it's so old that anyone would be unsure about >> >a change which might have fixed the problem since then. > I disagree. Oh, excellent. You must know about a very recent patch that would fix the problem. Please, point me in the right direction. >> >This is a bug. Let's not stand on ceremony. Let's fix it. > So you are not willing to test latest kernels, but expect the > developers here to fix the bug? Yes, I do expect developers to look at the bug even though I haven't checked the absolutely, positively, hottest-off-the-press, latest kernel. That's what developers of serious software do: they treat serious bug reports seriously and with respect. They don't engage in bloody-mindedness. They don't grasp for excuses to ignore problems. Not unless they don't care about what they develop, and I happen to know that Linux developers care very passionately about the software. Developers aren't going to take my word that the problem exists, but will try to reproduce it for themselves. The purpose of trying vanilla kernels is to pre-qualify bugs, so that they don't waste their time chasing phantoms. I've done that. I've pre-qualified it; there's a bug. Do you have an actual reason to think that this bug, which clearly has been undiagnosed for quite some time, has been fixed. Because that would justify telling me to try a newer kernel. If you don't, you're just being officious.