Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] [IPV4] UDP: Always checksum even if without socket filter

From: Wang Chen <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 14:25:23 +0800

David Miller said the following on 2007-11-20 14:15:
> From: Bill Fink <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:29:45 -0500
> 
>> But the best approach seems to be just not to count
>> it in the first place until tha application has actually received
>> the packet, since as Herbert pointed out, that's what the RFC
>> actually specifies for the meaning of the udpInDatagrams counter.
> 
> I agree and would be happy to apply such a patch :)
> 
> 
> 

I want to wait for more suggestions until make such patch.
Because this solution leads to troubles with some apps, such as NFS.
(http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6660#c2)