[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "alpha: fix broken network checksum" has been added to staging queue

[Mikulas Patocka]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Luis Henriques wrote:

> Hi Mikulas,
> 
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 12:36:23PM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > That patch is needed on 3.12 and 3.13, you don't need to backport it to 
> > older kernels.
> > 
> > Mikulas
> > 
> 
> Thank you for your review.  I have dropped this patch from the 3.11 kernel
> before releasing it (I saw discussion regarding this patch in the 3.12
> stable kernel).
> 
> Unfortunately, it looks like I forgot to do the same for the 3.5 kernel and
> version 3.5.7.30 has been released with this patch.  I will revert it for
> the next release (unless you believe this patch is harmless in this
> kernel, and there's not need to revert it).
> 
> Cheers,
> --
> Luís

The patch is harmless on kernels <= 3.11. But it's not needed there.

Mikulas