From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Ed L Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg K-H <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.14-rc2] aoe [1/2]: explicitly set minimum packet length to ETH_ZLEN
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 19:05:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1127757933.27757.32.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87hdc7ept7.fsf@coraid.com>
On Llu, 2005-09-26 at 12:50 -0400, Ed L Cashin wrote:
> > skb = alloc_skb(len, GFP_ATOMIC);
>
> This change fixes some strange problems observed on a system that was
> using the e1000 network driver. Is the network driver supposed to
> ensure that ethernet packets are up to spec, at least 60 bytes long?
The network driver is supposed to pad frames if the hardware cannot and
to blank the spare bits. If it isn't occurring please try and trace down
the offender.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-26 17:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-26 16:43 [PATCH 2.6.14-rc2] aoe [1/2]: explicitly set minimum packet length to ETH_ZLEN Ed L. Cashin
2005-09-26 16:45 ` [PATCH 2.6.14-rc2] aoe [2/2]: use get_unaligned for possibly unaligned accesses in ATA id buffer Ed L. Cashin
2005-09-26 21:55 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-26 16:50 ` [PATCH 2.6.14-rc2] aoe [1/2]: explicitly set minimum packet length to ETH_ZLEN Ed L Cashin
2005-09-26 17:10 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2005-09-26 17:25 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-09-26 22:28 ` Ed L Cashin
2005-09-26 23:21 ` David S. Miller
2005-09-27 21:41 ` Ed L Cashin
2005-09-26 17:14 ` Ben Dooks
2005-09-26 18:05 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-09-26 19:09 ` Ed L Cashin
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