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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Johannes Erdfelt <johannes@erdfelt.com>, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] tulip VLAN support
Date: Wed, 05 Jan 2005 14:17:57 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41DC6795.6060000@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41DC6669.9090407@pobox.com>

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Johannes Erdfelt wrote:
> 
>> @@ -259,7 +259,7 @@
>>  #define RX_RING_SIZE    128  #define MEDIA_MASK     31
>>  
>> -#define PKT_BUF_SZ        1536    /* Size of each temporary Rx 
>> buffer. */
>> +#define PKT_BUF_SZ        1540    /* Size of each temporary Rx 
>> buffer. */
> 
> 
> 
> This is the reason why the tulip "vlan" patch is continually rejected. 
> You shouldn't need to increase this constant, but rather follow the 
> other "large MTU" driver conversions.

Has anyone tried just leaving this line as it was (but adding the rest
of the patch)?  I believe the 1536 already has plenty of space and
can hold the extra 4 bytes w/out problem.

Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

  reply	other threads:[~2005-01-05 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-05 19:34 [RFC] tulip VLAN support Johannes Erdfelt
2005-01-05 22:12 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-05 22:17   ` Ben Greear [this message]
2005-01-05 22:31   ` Johannes Erdfelt
2005-01-05 22:45     ` Jeff Garzik
2005-01-05 22:56       ` Ben Greear

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