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SubjectRe: [PATCH] blackfin checksum annotations
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...


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