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From: Murali Krishna Policharla <murali.policharla@broadcom.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] net: core: Fix to store new mtu setting in netdevice.
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2019 15:24:48 +0530
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> Hi Andrew/Heiner
>
>                                        Thanks for the feedback. This
patch
> fixes a case where ndo_change_mtu function is provided but the callback
> function is not storing mtu to netdevice structure.

> Hi Murali

> At the moment, any driver which implements ndo_change_mtu MUST set
> ndev->mtu. It is a nice clean definition, easy for any driver write to
> understand.

Hi Andrew
                       Since drivers implementing ndo_change_mtu callback
function are following this approach. Will go with the existing approach
and modify the ndo_change_mtu callback function that I will be adding to
store mtu to netdevice structure.

Thanks
Murali