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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 net 6/6] net: mvneta: enable IP checksum with jumbo frames for Armada 38x on Port0
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Thomas,


2015-11-26 19:33 GMT+01:00 Thomas Petazzoni
<thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>:
> Marcin,
>
> On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 19:08:13 +0100, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
>> The Ethernet controller found in the Armada 38x SoC's family support
>> TCP/IP checksumming with frame sizes larger than 1600 bytes, however
>> only on port 0.
>>
>> This commit enables it by setting 'tx-csum-limit' to 9800B in
>> 'ethernet@70000' node.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Marcin Wojtas <mw@semihalf.com>
>> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.18+
>
> This and the previous patch is not a fix, and has no business going in
> stable. It is enabling a better functionality, but it is clearly not a
> fix.
>

Ok. I thought that patches enabling tx_csum_limit were adding a sort
of regression, but I can agree to your interpretation. In such case I
will leave stable notification only for patch #4.

Thanks,
Marcin


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