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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	cooloney@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] blackfin checksum annotations
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2008 13:42:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080427124247.GV5882@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080427111623.GA6754@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>

On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 01:16:23PM +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:

> I don't think such arch specific patches should go in via net-2.6.
> You did that for a very similar patch for s390 and it was subtly broken:
> 
> See:
> f994aae1bd8e4813d59a2ed64d17585fe42d03fc
> ("[NET]: S390 checksum annotations and cleanups.")
> 
> and
> 
> afbc1e994ddcf3b6fe2dc928ee8dc31a5d0c3118
> ("[S390] Fix TCP/UDP pseudo header checksum computation.")

I remember, and AFAICT this one is safe - here everything stays within
C and type changes ought to be equivalent transformations.  Said that,
I do _NOT_ have hardware in question and it's completely untested at
runtime.

Al, who really couldn't care less which tree that goes through - up to
davem and blackfin maintainers; both are on Cc, so...

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-27 12:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-27  5:22 [PATCH] blackfin checksum annotations Al Viro
2008-04-27  5:26 ` David Miller
2008-04-27  5:38   ` Al Viro
2008-04-27 11:16   ` Heiko Carstens
2008-04-27 12:42     ` Al Viro [this message]
2008-04-27 13:37       ` Bryan Wu
2008-04-27 19:50         ` David Miller

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