Re: Starfire (Adaptec) kernel 2.6.13+ panics on AMD64 NFS server

On 10/1/05, Herbert Xu [off-list ref] wrote:

You must never call skb_checksum_help unless the packet is meant to
be checksummed by the hardware.  So starfire is the guilty party here.

This patch makes it do the check and also check for errors from
skb_checksum_help.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>

Thanx Herbert,
 at least on 2.6.14_rc2 the patch appears to work for my stress test :)

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Hendrik Visage