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

[Mikulas Patocka]

On Tue, 18 Feb 2014, Kamal Mostafa wrote:

> On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 12:39 -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.
> > 
> > If you didn't backport 3ddc5b46a8e90f3c9251338b60191d0a804b0d92, you don't
> > need to backport 0ef38d70d4118b2ce1a538d14357be5ff9dc2bbd as well.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the heads-up Mikulas...
> 
> Alas, backports of that patch (0ef38d7 "alpha: fix broken network
> checksum") have already been released in 3.8-stable and 3.5-stable
> (neither of which contains 3ddc5b4 backports).
> 
> It looks like 0ef38d7 should be harmless in those older kernels though,
> so my inclination is to leave it in.  Do you see any problem with that?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
>  -Kamal

You can leave it there. It is harmless, it just adds some junk code.

Mikulas