Just moving a thread over from the commit mailing list on changes to the 405GP ethernet driver.
----- Forwarded message from andrew may <acmay at acmay.homeip.net> ----- On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 06:34:35PM -0400, Dan Malek wrote: > andrew may wrote: > > > The COMMAC can handle packets that are across multiple buffer descriptors. > > Sure, most contemporary hardware can do this. > > > So the ethernet hardware should be able to handle skb frags. > > Have you ever seen these? You certainly don't get them for transmit. Well you have to set dev->features to get them otherwise the net core will call skb_linearize and you will never see them. Then you have to have something in the stack generate them, like sendfile. ----- End forwarded message ----- ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/
