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

2017-01-26 Thread David Miller
From: Thomas Falcon Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2017 10:44:31 -0600 > On 01/25/2017 10:05 PM, David Miller wrote: >> From: Thomas Falcon >> Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 15:02:20 -0600 >> >>> In the current driver, the MTU is set to the maximum value >>>

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

2017-01-26 Thread Thomas Falcon
On 01/25/2017 10:05 PM, David Miller wrote: > From: Thomas Falcon > 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

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

2017-01-25 Thread David Miller
From: Thomas Falcon 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

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

2017-01-25 Thread Thomas Falcon
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. It also corrects a discrepancy between MTU values received from firmware, which includes the ethernet header length, and net device MTU