[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net: fix checksum API documentation

Lance Richardson lance.richardson at broadcom.com
Tue Sep 21 16:50:12 CEST 2021


On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 6:11 AM Morten Brørup <mb at smartsharesystems.com> wrote:
> Ferruh, the description of the return value is technically correct; it mentions the IP packet, not the IP header.
> So this change is a clarification only.
>
> However, I agree that the same clarification would also benefit 'rte_ipv4_udptcp_cksum()'.
>
Sure, will fix in v2.

Also for rte_ipv4_udptcp_cksum(), a comment says "The IP and layer 4
checksum must be set to zero", but only the layer 4 checksum actually
needs to be set to zero. I'll fix that at the same time.

Thanks,
    Lance


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