From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Sreenivasa Honnur <Sreenivasa.Honnur@neterion.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
support@neterion.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 6/9] vxge: Check if FCS stripping is disabled by the firmware.
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:44:11 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ACA225B.6020809@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AC9EEE0.5000601@gmail.com>
On 10/05/2009 06:04 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Sreenivasa Honnur a écrit :
>> - Added a function to check if FCS stripping is disabled by the firmware, if
>> it is not disabled fail driver load.
>>
>> - By default FCS stripping is disabled by the firmware. With this assumption
>> driver decrements the indicated packet length by 4 bytes(FCS length).
>>
>> - This patch ensures that FCS stripping is disabled during driver load time.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sreenivasa Honnur<sreenivasa.honnur@neterion.com>
>
> What the big deal about FCS not being stripped ?
I'd consider it a feature to be able to receive the CRC...would be nice for
sniffing applications!
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-05 16:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-05 11:56 [net-next-2.6 PATCH 6/9] vxge: Check if FCS stripping is disabled by the firmware Sreenivasa Honnur
2009-10-05 13:04 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-05 16:44 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2009-10-06 6:41 ` Ramkrishna Vepa
2009-10-06 6:47 ` Eric Dumazet
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2009-10-05 9:11 Sreenivasa Honnur
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