Bug 130307 - direct_csum_partial_copy_generic should always be exported
Summary: direct_csum_partial_copy_generic should always be exported
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Dave Jones
QA Contact: Brian Brock
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-08-18 22:01 UTC by H.J. Lu
Modified: 2015-01-04 22:09 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2004-11-27 22:19:40 UTC
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A patch to export direct_csum_partial_copy_generic (547 bytes, patch)
2004-08-18 22:03 UTC, H.J. Lu 		no flags Details | Diff
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Description H.J. Lu 2004-08-18 22:01:54 UTC 
direct_csum_partial_copy_generic is used by some network drivers
regardless if CONFIG_X86_UACCESS_INDIRECT is defined or not.
Comment 1 H.J. Lu 2004-08-18 22:03:10 UTC 
Created attachment 102861 [details]
A patch to export direct_csum_partial_copy_generic
Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2004-08-19 06:07:09 UTC 
which ones?
they might just be buggy...
Comment 3 H.J. Lu 2004-08-19 15:09:18 UTC 
[hjl@gnu kernel-2.6.8]$ find linux-2.6.8/drivers -name *.c | xargs
grep csum_partial_copy
linux-2.6.8/drivers/net/tokenring/ibmtr.c: *    + implemented
csum_partial_copy in tr_rx and increased receive
linux-2.6.8/drivers/net/tokenring/ibmtr.c:                     
chksum=csum_partial_copy_nocheck((void*)rbufdata,
linux-2.6.8/drivers/net/typhoon.c:                      csum =
csum_partial_copy_nocheck(image_data, dpage,

csum_partial_copy_nocheck may be inlined to
direct_csum_partial_copy_generic.
Comment 4 Dave Jones 2004-11-27 22:19:40 UTC 
fixed in 2.6.9 based update.
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