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From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@oss.sgi.com>
To: Machida Hiroyuki <machida@sm.sony.co.jp>
Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-mips@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: csum_ipv6_magic()
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2001 22:48:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011022224828.A20032@dea.linux-mips.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011022203324G.machida@sm.sony.co.jp>; from machida@sm.sony.co.jp on Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:33:24PM +0900

On Mon, Oct 22, 2001 at 08:33:24PM +0900, Machida Hiroyuki wrote:

> I found bugs in checksum.h. A sample fix is attached below.
> 
> I perfer to use generic csum_ipv6_magic() in net/checksum.h
> than this fix. Please someone show me improvements for this asm
> version of csum_ipv6_magic(). 

The C version should produce code that performs identically on MIPS.  As
such we have no good reason to keep the assembler version.

> * (csum_ipv6_magic): Have same paramter types as net/checksum.h.
>   Correct carry computation.  Add a final carry.

The len argument of that prototype should be __u32 because of IPv6
jumbograms.

  Ralf

  reply	other threads:[~2001-10-22 20:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-22  6:16 csum_ipv6_magic() Machida Hiroyuki
2001-10-22  7:55 ` csum_ipv6_magic() Alan Cox
2001-10-22  7:55   ` csum_ipv6_magic() Alan Cox
2001-10-22 10:56   ` csum_ipv6_magic() Machida Hiroyuki
2001-10-22 11:33     ` csum_ipv6_magic() Machida Hiroyuki
2001-10-22 20:48       ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2001-10-23  5:07         ` csum_ipv6_magic() Machida Hiroyuki
2001-10-23 11:18           ` csum_ipv6_magic() Ralf Baechle

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