Re: [PATCH] blackfin checksum annotations

From: Bryan Wu
Date: Sun Apr 27 2008 - 09:38:10 EST


On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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.
>

Sorry for the delay. I will test this patch on Blackfin arch. And if it is ok,
it will be merged to Blackfin git tree. As long as it is a Blackfin
arch related issue,
merging to Blackfin tree is a better way.

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

Thanks
-Bryan
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