On Wednesday, November 04, 2015 at 04:03:16 PM, Vostrikov Andrey wrote: > Hi, Marek.
Hi, > > About the parity -- can we add some flag into the datagram to indicate we > > want hardware to calculate the parity for that particular datagram for > > us? And we'd also need to indicate what type of parity. I dunno if this > > is worth the hassle. > > This is HW configuration property, it does not belong to datagram. Also > for TX channels, parity could be two kinds: odd and even, for RX it > is only on/off. There are datagrams which do contain parity and ones which do not contain it, correct ? Thus, it's a property of that particular datagram. > Parity is not the only property that needs to be configured in HW, > following could be needed as well, > - label bit flipping (on or off) This is hardware property. > - rate change (low / high) This is again hardware configuration -- you have to configure the link speed before you do RX/TX. > - label filters and label priority matching (this could be HoltIC > specific) > > I suppose all these properties are configured only once, at > interface initialization. These three above, yes. Parity, I don't think so. Best regards, Marek Vasut -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
