[ovs-dev] [PATCH] datapath: Handle packets with precomputed checksums.

[Ben Pfaff]

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 08:12:39PM -0500, Jesse Gross wrote:
> Some devices are capable of computing checksums of received packets
> in hardware (the GRE module also falls into this category).
> Unfortunately before CHECKSUM_HW was split into two different values
> it was impossible to tell the checksum status of a packet during
> bridging.  It turns out that a workaround that we already had in the
> GRE module is very similar to that in mainline kernel, so this
> generalizes that workaround.

Could you add something to the changelog and possibly to the comment
that explains how to test this, e.g. how to set up a machine such that
this code will be triggered and thus fix a problem.  It's not obvious to
me...