net: update the usage of CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY
authorYi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 11:12:41 +0000 (11:12 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:37:35 +0000 (17:37 -0400)
As suggested by Ben, this adds the clarification on the usage of
CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY on the outgoing patch. Also add the usage
description of NETIF_F_FCOE_CRC and CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY
for the kernel FCoE protocol driver.

This is a follow-up to the following:
http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/147315/

Signed-off-by: Yi Zou <yi.zou@intel.com>
Cc: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Cc: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Cc: www.Open-FCoE.org <devel@open-fcoe.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/linux/skbuff.h

index 8dc8257eab8b2131ba45f73e19b43135bce5fdb6..a2b9953b582d9a3f69a97fe31b084a43a2a6a3bd 100644 (file)
  *                       about CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY. 8)
  *     NETIF_F_IPV6_CSUM about as dumb as the last one but does IPv6 instead.
  *
+ *     UNNECESSARY: device will do per protocol specific csum. Protocol drivers
+ *     that do not want net to perform the checksum calculation should use
+ *     this flag in their outgoing skbs.
+ *     NETIF_F_FCOE_CRC  this indicates the device can do FCoE FC CRC
+ *                       offload. Correspondingly, the FCoE protocol driver
+ *                       stack should use CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY.
+ *
  *     Any questions? No questions, good.              --ANK
  */