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Commit 6ae23ad3 authored by Tom Herbert's avatar Tom Herbert Committed by David S. Miller
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net: Add driver helper functions to determine checksum offloadability



Add skb_csum_offload_chk driver helper function to determine if a
device with limited checksum offload capabilities is able to offload the
checksum for a given packet.

This patch includes:
  - The skb_csum_offload_chk function. Returns true if checksum is
    offloadable, else false. Optionally, in the case that the checksum
    is not offloable, the function can call skb_checksum_help to resolve
    the checksum. skb_csum_offload_chk also returns whether the checksum
    refers to an encapsulated checksum.
  - Definition of skb_csum_offl_spec structure that caller uses to
    indicate rules about what it can offload (e.g. IPv4/v6, TCP/UDP only,
    whether encapsulated checksums can be offloaded, whether checksum with
    IPv6 extension headers can be offloaded).
  - Ancilary functions called skb_csum_offload_chk_help,
    skb_csum_off_chk_help_cmn, skb_csum_off_chk_help_cmn_v4_only.

Signed-off-by: default avatarTom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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