From: Andrea Merello <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 3 Oct 2013 21:18:37 +0200
> This patch allows (optionally, via ethtool) the atl1e NIC to: > - Receive bad frames (runt, bad-fcs, etc..) > - Receive full frames without stripping the FCS. > > This has been tested on my board by injecting runt and bad-fcs > frames with a FPGA-based device. > > The particular scenario of receiving very short frames (<4 bytes) > without passing FCS to the upper layer has been also tested: > This could be potentially dangerous because the driver performs a > 4 byte subtraction on the frame length, but I finally have NOT > added anything to avoid this because it seems the NIC always > discards frames so much short.. > If someone still have some reason to worry about this, please > tell me.. I will add an explicit SW check.. > > Signed-off-by: Andrea Merello <[email protected]> Looks good, applied, thanks Andrea. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
