Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 6/9] vxge: Check if FCS stripping is disabled by the firmware.

From: Ben Greear <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:44:11 -0700

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<[email-masked]>
>
> 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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