Re: [PATCH net 2/5] ibmvnic: Fix MTU settings

[Thomas Falcon]

On 01/25/2017 10:05 PM, David Miller wrote:
> From: Thomas Falcon <tlfal...@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:02:20 -0600
>
>> In the current driver, the MTU is set to the maximum value
>> capable for the backing device. This patch sets the MTU to the
>> default value for a Linux net device.
> Why are you doing this?
>
> What happens to users who depend upon the current behavior.
>
> They will break, and that isn't acceptable.
>
The current behavior was already broken.  We were seeing firmware errors when 
sending jumbo sized packets .  We plan to add proper support for jumbo sized 
packets as soon as possible.