On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 19:16:55 +0100
Michał Mirosław <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 07:07:27PM -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Wed, 15 Dec 2010 02:24:08 +0100 (CET)
> > Michał Mirosław <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Some drivers are using skb_transport_offset(skb) instead of 
> > > skb->csum_start
> > > for NETIF_F_HW_CSUM offload.  This does not matter now, but if someone
> > > implements checksumming of encapsulated packets then this will break 
> > > silently.
> > > 
> > > TSO output paths are left as they are, since they are for IP+TCP only
> > > (might be worth converting though).
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Michał Mirosław <[email protected]>
> > Which if any of these drivers did you test on real hardware?
> 
> I'm running it on skge, with additional patch that changes it to use
> NETIF_F_HW_CSUM instead of NETIF_F_IP_CSUM. BTW, why it is not advertising
> full HW checksum in vanilla kernel? Are there any known hardware bugs in 
> there?
> 
> Best Regards,
> Michał Mirosław

The driver was written from vendor sk98lin driver and that driver
only did IP checksum, therefore I did not trust the hardware.
The chipset is old, and not used in new designs, no documentation
is up to date (and I didn't have any).

Please don't enable non-IPv4 checksum offload on this hardware, there
is too big a risk of it not working on all hardware.

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