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cassini: Only use chip checksum for ipv4 packets.
authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Thu, 22 May 2008 00:05:34 +0000 (17:05 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mon, 16 Jun 2008 20:19:55 +0000 (13:19 -0700)
[ upstream commit: b1443e2f6501f06930a162ff1ff08382a98bf23e ]

According to David Monro, at least with Natsemi Saturn chips the
cassini driver has some trouble with ipv6 checksums.

Until we have more information about what's going on here, only
use the chip checksums for ipv4.

This workaround was suggested and tested by David.

Update version and release date.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
drivers/net/cassini.c

index 14299f8063af16341011a49e7156f2b60688465f..863d7f3eb21e123ebe13a0ddfa0dfb984ce44a4b 100644 (file)
 
 #define DRV_MODULE_NAME                "cassini"
 #define PFX DRV_MODULE_NAME    ": "
-#define DRV_MODULE_VERSION     "1.5"
-#define DRV_MODULE_RELDATE     "4 Jan 2008"
+#define DRV_MODULE_VERSION     "1.6"
+#define DRV_MODULE_RELDATE     "21 May 2008"
 
 #define CAS_DEF_MSG_ENABLE       \
        (NETIF_MSG_DRV          | \
@@ -2140,9 +2140,12 @@ end_copy_pkt:
                if (addr)
                        cas_page_unmap(addr);
        }
-       skb->csum = csum_unfold(~csum);
-       skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_COMPLETE;
        skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, cp->dev);
+       if (skb->protocol == htons(ETH_P_IP)) {
+               skb->csum = csum_unfold(~csum);
+               skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_COMPLETE;
+       } else
+               skb->ip_summed = CHECKSUM_NONE;
        return len;
 }