From: Yi Zou Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:18:49 +0000 (+0000) Subject: net: do not do gso for CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY in netif_needs_gso X-Git-Tag: v3.4-rc2~37^2~19^2~8 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0646819cd31786f4b024d0056f73adf460be40aa;p=pandora-kernel.git net: do not do gso for CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY in netif_needs_gso This is related to fixing the bug of dropping FCoE frames when disabling tx ip checksum by 'ethtool -K ethx tx off'. The FCoE protocol stack driver would use CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY on tx path instead of CHECKSUM_PARTIAL (as indicated in the 2/2 of this series). To do so, netif_needs_gso() has to be changed here to not do gso for both CHECKSUM_PARTIAL and CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. Ref. to original discussion thread: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/146567/ Signed-off-by: Yi Zou Tested-by: Ross Brattain Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher --- Reading git-diff-tree failed