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From: Tom Rini <trini@ti.com>
To: u-boot@lists.denx.de
Subject: [U-Boot] net: asix: don't pad odd-length TX packets
Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:27:37 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140307222737.GH16805@bill-the-cat> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393532822-28217-1-git-send-email-swarren@wwwdotorg.org>

On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 01:27:02PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:

> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
> 
> For Ethernet/USB RX packets, the ASIX HW pads odd-sized packets so that
> they have an even size. Currently, asix_recv() does remove this padding,
> and asic_send() adds equivalent padding in the TX path. However, the HW
> does not appear to need this packing for TX packets in practical testing
> with "ASIX Elec. Corp. AX88x72A 000001" Vendor: 0x0b95 Product 0x7720
> Version 0.1. The Linux kernel does no such padding for the TX path.
> 
> Remove the padding from the TX path:
> 
> * For consistency with the Linux kernel.
> * NVIDIA has a Tegra simulator which validates that the length of USB
>   packets sent to an ASIX device matches the packet length value inside
>   the packet data. Having U-Boot and the kernel do the same thing when
>   creating the TX packets simplifies the simulator's validation.
> 
> Cc: Lucas Stach <dev@lynxeye.de>
> Cc: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> Cc: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
> Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> Tested-by: Marek Vasut <marex@denx.de>
> Tested-by: Gerhard Sittig <gsi@denx.de>

Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

-- 
Tom
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-07 22:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-02-27 20:27 [U-Boot] [PATCH] net: asix: don't pad odd-length TX packets Stephen Warren
2014-02-27 20:38 ` Simon Glass
2014-02-28 10:54   ` Marek Vasut
2014-03-03 14:14     ` Gerhard Sittig
2014-03-03 14:24       ` Marek Vasut
2014-03-07 22:27 ` Tom Rini [this message]
2014-03-08 11:32   ` [U-Boot] " Marek Vasut
2014-03-10 22:11     ` Joe Hershberger

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