Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] ipg: add jumbo frame support kconfig option

From: Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:08:13 -0500

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> From: Pekka Enberg <[email-masked]>
>>
>> Convert the internal JUMBO_FRAME #ifdef to CONFIG_IP1000_JUMBO_FRAME proper and
>> fix compilation errors.
>>
>> Cc: Francois Romieu <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Sorbica Shieh <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: Jesse Huang <[email-masked]>
>> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <[email-masked]>
> 
> Please don't do this as a config option. Config options seem like a good idea
> to developers but are difficult for distributions.  Either support jumbo
> frames by default or not at all.

Agreed, but to be more specific...    always compile in jumbo frame 
support.  You don't have to enable it at runtime by default, though.

	Jeff