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    [IPX]: Annotate and fix IPX checksum · 02e60370
    Al Viro authored
    
    
    Calculation of IPX checksum got buggered about 2.4.0.  The old variant
    mangled the packet; that got fixed, but calculation itself got buggered.
    Restored the correct logics, fixed a subtle breakage we used to have even
    back then: if the sum is 0 mod 0xffff, we want to return 0, not 0xffff.
    The latter has special meaning for IPX (cheksum disabled).  Observation
    (and obvious fix) nicked from history of FreeBSD ipx_cksum.c...
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAl Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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