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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] sky2: enforce minimum ring size
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 21:44:20 -0500 (EST)
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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:37:23 -0800

> The hardware has a restriction that the minimum ring size possible
> is 128. The number of elements used is controlled by tx_pending and
> the overall number of elements in the ring tx_ring_size, therefore it
> is okay to limit the number of elements in use to a small value (63)
> but still provide a bigger ring.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>

Applied to 'net'.