Re:Re: [PATCH] net: macb: rate limit netdev error info print in the data path

[taozj888 <taozj888@163.com>]

Hi Jakub:

Yes, we had the actual HW for our production environment which is based on a chip
that used the Cadence MACB implementation, and it really bothered our booting process
since it received a lot of jumob pkts which are just over the current MTU of the driver
and it has to show those error msgs. 

The issue was reported by our production section. Actually the err msg here should include a timestamp
at the beginning, looks like:
[ 318.594950][ C0] macb PHYT0036:00 eth0: not whole frame pointed by descriptor
[ 318.602366][ C0] macb PHYT0036:00 eth0: not whole frame pointed by descriptor
...

but for simplicity, I just removed that part.

I will put some of the HW info into the commit msg as what you indicated.

Thanks,

Zijin Tao






At 2026-09-24 09:17:46, "Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
>On Sun, 20 Sep 2026 18:09:20 +0800 Zijin Tao wrote:
>> Now the MACB ethernet driver print the netdev error information
>> directly by netdev_err(), which would lead to a large number of
>> error information print if there was a significant number of
>> error or just jumbo packets exceeding the MTU received when booting.
>> For example, it would print a large number of:
>> 
>> macb PHYT0036:00 eth0: not whole frame pointed by descriptor
>> macb PHYT0036:00 eth0: not whole frame pointed by descriptor
>> ...
>
>Do you have the HW or you're acting based on LLM output?
>If the latter, and since you can't follow the process please
>don't post any more such patches.
>
>If you do have the HW to test this - put into the commit message
>what HW you have, and covering all the cases.
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