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From: Mike Sinkovsky <msink@permonline•ru>
To: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, msink@permonline•ru
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] ethernet driver for the WIZnet W5300 chip
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:20:59 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F69734B.7040105@permonline.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1332266881.2489.4.camel@bwh-desktop.uk.solarflarecom.com>

21.03.2012 0:08, Ben Hutchings написал:
> +static void w5300_get_drvinfo(struct net_device *ndev,
> +			      struct ethtool_drvinfo *info)
> +{
> +	strlcpy(info->driver, DRV_NAME, sizeof(info->driver));
> +	strlcpy(info->version, DRV_VERSION, sizeof(info->version));
> +	strlcpy(info->fw_version, "N/A", sizeof(info->fw_version));
> [...]
>
> Nitpick: if you don't have firmware, don't set fw_version at all.
>
> Ben.

Then ethtool prints empty string as firmware version, I think "N/A" is 
more intuitive.
Can will remove, if it is preferred way.


But I have a question to networking guru's:

This chip have FRAME_SIZE limited to 1514, including eth header.
So, for 802.1Q vlan packets mtu must be set to 1496.
For now we handle this from userspace, but I think this is wrong in general
- handling hardware bugs and limitations is kernels job.

Can driver somehow limit mtu for slave vlan devices to 1496, but still 
use 1500
for plain ethernet?
->ndo_change_mtu is called for master device only, not for it's slaves.

(and sorry for my russian english, just in case)

---
Mike

  reply	other threads:[~2012-03-21  6:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-03-19  9:23 [PATCH v2] ethernet driver for the WIZnet W5300 chip Mike Sinkovsky
2012-03-20 18:08 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-03-21  6:20   ` Mike Sinkovsky [this message]
2012-03-22 16:57     ` Ben Hutchings
2012-03-21 14:49 ` Florian Fainelli
2012-03-22  6:58   ` Mike Sinkovsky
2012-03-24 11:02 ` [PATCH v3] Ethernet " Mike Sinkovsky
2012-03-24 15:53   ` Joe Perches
2012-03-24 16:10   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-26  9:05     ` Mike Sinkovsky
2012-03-26  9:07 ` [PATCH v4] " Mike Sinkovsky
2012-03-28  2:35   ` David Miller
2012-03-28  5:52     ` Mike Sinkovsky
2012-03-28  6:22       ` David Miller
2012-03-30  7:00   ` [PATCH v5 1/2] " Mike Sinkovsky
2012-03-31 21:45     ` Mark Brown
2012-03-30  7:00   ` [PATCH v5 2/2] Ethernet driver for the WIZnet W5100 chip Mike Sinkovsky
2012-03-30  9:23     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-31  9:40       ` Francois Romieu
2012-03-31  9:46         ` Francois Romieu
2012-03-31  9:52       ` Mike Sinkovsky
2012-03-31 10:24         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-03-31 21:23     ` Mark Brown
2012-04-02  9:40       ` Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-02 11:21         ` Mark Brown
2012-04-03 10:58   ` [PATCH v6 0/2] Ethernet drivers for WIZnet chips Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-03 11:39     ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-03 12:15       ` Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-03 12:29         ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-04  5:58           ` Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-04  6:17             ` Eric Dumazet
2012-04-04  7:25               ` Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-04  7:23     ` [PATCH v7 " Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-04 11:57       ` [PATCH v8 " Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-05  1:15         ` David Miller
2012-04-05  5:36           ` Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-04 11:57       ` [PATCH v8 1/2] Ethernet driver for the WIZnet W5300 chip Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-04 11:57       ` [PATCH v8 2/2] Ethernet driver for the WIZnet W5100 chip Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-04 12:08       ` [PATCH v8 0/2] Ethernet drivers for WIZnet chips Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-05  5:33         ` [PATCH v9 " Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-05  5:47           ` David Miller
2012-04-05  5:33         ` [PATCH v9 1/2] Ethernet driver for the WIZnet W5300 chip Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-05  5:33         ` [PATCH v9 2/2] Ethernet driver for the WIZnet W5100 chip Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-04 12:08       ` [PATCH v8 1/2] Ethernet driver for the WIZnet W5300 chip Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-04 12:08       ` [PATCH v8 2/2] Ethernet driver for the WIZnet W5100 chip Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-04  7:23     ` [PATCH v7 1/2] Ethernet driver for the WIZnet W5300 chip Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-04  7:23     ` [PATCH v7 2/2] Ethernet driver for the WIZnet W5100 chip Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-03 10:58   ` [PATCH v6 1/2] Ethernet driver for the WIZnet W5300 chip Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-03 13:36     ` Mark Brown
2012-04-04  6:18       ` Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-04 10:01         ` Mark Brown
2012-04-04 11:00           ` Mike Sinkovsky
2012-04-03 10:58   ` [PATCH v6 2/2] Ethernet driver for the WIZnet W5100 chip Mike Sinkovsky

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