From: Thomas Falcon <tlfal...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:44:31 -0600
> On 01/25/2017 10:05 PM, David Miller wrote: >> From: Thomas Falcon <tlfal...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> >> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:02:20 -0600 >> >>> In the current driver, the MTU is set to the maximum value >>> capable for the backing device. This patch sets the MTU to the >>> default value for a Linux net device. >> Why are you doing this? >> >> What happens to users who depend upon the current behavior. >> >> They will break, and that isn't acceptable. >> > The current behavior was already broken. We were seeing firmware errors when > sending jumbo sized packets . We plan to add proper support for jumbo sized > packets as soon as possible. Need to be explained, with a full detailed history of how things got this way, in your commit message.
