On Thu, 3 May 2007, Shawn W. wrote:
> There's a small bug related to hardware UDP checksums in the hme ethernet 
> card driver in NetBSD 3.1 (Including a recent cvs update of the netbsd-3 
> branch). Looking at the NetBSD cvsweb page, it was fixed 2 years ago in MAIN 
> (Revision 1.50 of sys/dev/ic/hme.c). So. What does it take to get something 
> into a release?
>
> It doesn't affect me; I was just really bored and curious and going through 
> drivers for hardware on my Ultra 5 yesterday. It just seems odd that a bug 
> fixed years ago is still in the current stable version.

I've looked and the patch would apply cleanly to the netbsd-3 branch:
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/03/17/0035.html

I don't have hardware to test this, though, but I guess it'd still make 
sense to pull this up.

Martin, what do you think?


  - Hubert