[ovs-dev] [PATCH 3/3] datapath: Fix compilation on newer old-style Xen kernels.

[Jesse Gross]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 6:09 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 05:19:38PM -0500, Jesse Gross wrote:
> > Some ports of Xen (such as Debian Lenny's) use the old style
> > Xen checksumming fields on newer kernels.  Normally the code that
> > deals with those fields isn't used at all on newer kernels.  This
> > updates the checksumming pointer code with some changes from Lenny
> > Xen since it is cleaner and works well with our existing compatibility
> > layer.
>
> I read this fairly carefully.  It looks good to me.
>
> I wasn't able to get it to apply with "git am", though, so I couldn't
> build-test it on any kernels.  I hope that you tried it with various
> kernels.
>

Thanks for the review - checksum offloading is definitely pretty
complicated.  I'm reasonable confident that these changes are correct though
and I did some testing on different kernels, so I pushed the set.
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