net: Clarification of CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY

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This patch:
 - Clarifies the specific requirements of devices returning
   CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY (comments in skbuff.h).
 - Adds csum_level field to skbuff. This is used to express how
   many checksums are covered by CHECKSUM_UNNECESSARY (stores n - 1).
   This replaces the overloading of skb->encapsulation, that field is
   is now only used to indicate inner headers are valid.
 - Change __skb_checksum_validate_needed to "consume" each checksum
   as indicated by csum_level as layers of the the packet are parsed.
 - Remove skb_pop_rcv_encapsulation, no longer needed in the new
   csum_level model.

Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Tom Herbert 2014-08-27 21:26:46 -07:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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