[ovs-dev] [PATCH] compat: Add skb_checksum_simple_complete()

Gregory Rose gvrose8192 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 20:00:11 UTC 2018


On 6/4/2018 12:57 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2018 at 05:57:44PM -0700, William Tu wrote:
>> On Fri, Jun 1, 2018 at 1:07 PM, Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> A recent patch to gre.c added a call to skb_checksum_simple_complete()
>>> which is not present in kernels before 3.16.  Fix up the compatability
>>> layer to allow compile on older kernels that do not have it.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Greg Rose <gvrose8192 at gmail.com>
>>> ---
>> LGTM.
>> Acked-by: William Tu <u9012063 at gmail.com>
> Applied to master, thanks!
>
> Does this need to be backported to any release branches?

No.  It will also require another follow on patch.  This patch generates 
some compile warnings on some kernels that don't seem to break Travis.  
So we'll need to investigate why.  Compile warnings should cause Travis 
builds to fail.

Thanks Ben.

- Greg

>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.



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