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From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Fix partial csum rx handling
Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 08:58:23 +0100
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On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 16:50 +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 12:36:06PM +0100, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> > When we receive a packet with a partial csum,
> > just set ip_summed to CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
> > Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> 
> I'm not sure I follow the context of this patch.  Could you
> explain what it's for?

Yeah, sorry. These three patches are to kvm-guest-driver-linux's awk
script which munges the virtio drivers so that they can be built for
older kernels.

So, the three patches are what I needed to make csum/GSO handling work
correctly on the RHEL5 2.6.18 based kernel.

Cheers,
Mark.