In article [ref] (at Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:56:23 +1100), Herbert Xu [off-list ref] says:

David Miller [off-list ref] wrote:

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Did a complete agreement occur that this patch is ok?

My only concern is that we're putting an arbitrary list of
protocols in the generic raw.c.  What's the justification
for including these protocols in particular but not others?

Is there any reason why the application can't just use the
existing IPV6_CHECKSUM socket option to set the same fields?

Yes, it can.

The only reason they (not myself :-)) want to put this in is
because the RFC says that MIP6 implementation MUST compute
checksum by default when it passes the MH to userspace.  On
the other hand, it also states that user space application SHOULD
set IPV6_CHECKSUM to 4.

--yoshfuji