On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Eugene Surovegin wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:40:09PM +0100, Stefan Roese wrote: > > Currently, all non TAH equipped 4xx PPC's call emac_start_xmit() upon > > xmit. This routine doesn't check if the frame length exceeds the max. > > MAL buffer size. > > > > This patch now changes the driver to call emac_start_xmit_sg() on all > > platforms and not only the TAH equipped ones (440GX). This enables an > > MTU of 9000 instead 4080. > > > > Tested on Kilauea (405EX) with gbit link -> jumbo frames enabled. > > > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > --- > > Eugene & Ben, do you see any problems with this patch? If not, then I'll > > send another version for the newemac driver too. > > Hmm, so why not make GigE support a condition to hook SG version of > xmit then? I don't like when you change behaviour for chips where it > perefectly legal not to do this check because you cannot change MTU > anyways.
OK. But how do we detect GigE support? Seems like GigE enabled devices have CONFIG_IBM_EMAC4 defined. If nobody objects I'll fix up another version tomorrow. Thanks. Best regards, Stefan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
