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From: Jerin Jacob <jerin.jacob@caviumnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] ether: use a default for max Rx frame
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Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 10:53:35 +0530
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-----Original Message-----
> Date: Wed, 23 May 2018 05:21:43 +0000
> From: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs@mellanox.com>
> To: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>, Andriy Berestovskyy
>  <Andriy.Berestovskyy@caviumnetworks.com>
> CC: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>, Bruce Richardson
>  <bruce.richardson@intel.com>, "ferruh.yigit@intel.com"
>  <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>, "arybchenko@solarflare.com"
>  <arybchenko@solarflare.com>, "hemant.agrawal@nxp.com"
>  <hemant.agrawal@nxp.com>, "jerin.jacob@cavium.com"
>  <jerin.jacob@cavium.com>
> Subject: RE: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3] ether: use a default for max Rx frame
>  size in configure()
> 
> Hi Andriy,
> 
> I think this patch addressing just small issue in a bigger problem.
> The way I see it all application needs to specify is the max packet size it expects to receive, nothing else(!). 

+1

> Currently we are forcing it to toggle multiple redundant fields.