From: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2019 13:34:16 +0100 > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 01:16:26PM +0100, Julian Wiedmann wrote: >> On 08.11.19 13:00, Sasha Levin wrote: >> > On Fri, Nov 08, 2019 at 12:50:24PM +0100, Julian Wiedmann wrote: >> >> On 08.11.19 12:37, Sasha Levin wrote: >> >>> From: Julian Wiedmann <jwi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> >>> >> >>> [ Upstream commit f231dc9dbd789b0f98a15941e3cebedb4ad72ad5 ] >> >>> >> >>> Combined L3+L4 csum offload is only required for some L3 HW. So for >> >>> L2 devices, don't offload the IP header csum calculation. >> >>> >> >> >> >> NACK, this has no relevance for stable. >> > >> > Sure, I'll drop it. >> > >> > Do you have an idea why the centos and ubuntu folks might have >> > backported this commit into their kernels? >> > >> >> No clue, I trust they have their own reasons. >> > > I cant see centos backporting anything unless they were asked to do so. > And this really looks like a "bugfix" to me, why isn't this relevant for > any older kernel versions? Yeah seriously, this looks entirely legit.
