Re: af_packet & CHECKSUM_HW

[Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 08:44:38AM -0500, James Morris wrote:
> On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> > In other words, what do I tell confused users who see bad checksums
> > in the tcpdump output over loopback and interfaces capable of
> > hardware checksums?
> 
> That this functionality does not belong in the kernel, as it serves no
> real purpose.

OK, I will quote you on that :)
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