From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: af_packet & CHECKSUM_HW Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2003 12:30:47 -0800 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <20031117123047.55377d3a.davem@redhat.com> References: <20031115024434.GA12276@gondor.apana.org.au> <20031116205146.GA8477@gondor.apana.org.au> <20031117194452.GB18448@vana.vc.cvut.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, jmorris@redhat.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Petr Vandrovec In-Reply-To: <20031117194452.GB18448@vana.vc.cvut.cz> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 20:44:52 +0100 Petr Vandrovec wrote: > It would be nice if at least kernel did not stomp on skb2->h.raw so > ptype callback could cope with situation and report to userspace where > to put checksum. I already discussed it here two or so months ago, and > only solution I was able to find is that VMware's vmnet have to parse > itself network headers to find where to put checksum. Nothing for IPv6 > users... Remind me again why the vmnet driver can't just run skb_checksum() on packets that have CHECKSUM_HW set?