From: Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
greearb@candelatech.com, akpm@osdl.org, alan@redhat.com,
jgarzik@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: VLAN support for 3c59x/3c90x
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 18:12:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040731161234.GA27388@alpha.home.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <410BC32F.7050107@pobox.com>
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 12:05:03PM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >Ok, sorry, I've just checked, they are 6. But I incidentely used the
> >feature
> >on 2 of them (dl2k and starfire). But more drivers still have the
> >'static int mtu=1500' preceeded by a comment stating "allow the user to
> >change
> >the mtu". Why is it not a #define then, if nobody can change it anymore ?
>
> People can change it all the time with ifconfig.
no, they change dev->mtu, not the 'static' mtu. I think it has been
inherited from the old days without MODULE_PARM.
> >Jeff, do you know the absolute hardware limit on the tulip ? I've seen
> >the
>
> It depends on the tulip.
>
> Look at Donald Becker's tulip.c for reference, it has full ->change_mtu
> support (as does 3c59x.c I believe).
ok thanks, I'll look at this.
Regards,
Willy
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-31 16:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-28 12:42 Alan Cox
2004-07-28 21:33 ` Ben Greear
2004-07-28 22:15 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-28 22:30 ` Ben Greear
2004-07-29 17:19 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-28 21:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-28 21:45 ` Ben Greear
2004-07-29 4:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-07-30 2:20 ` Herbert Xu
2004-07-30 12:10 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-07-31 3:57 ` Herbert Xu
2004-07-31 8:33 ` Willy Tarreau
[not found] ` <200407310846.i6V8k3qq006659@uai.com.br>
2004-07-31 8:57 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-07-31 9:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-31 10:11 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-07-31 14:12 ` Matti Aarnio
2004-07-31 16:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-31 17:13 ` Ben Greear
2004-07-31 17:03 ` Ben Greear
2004-07-31 17:05 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-07-31 17:21 ` Ben Greear
2004-07-31 20:16 ` Lee Revell
2004-07-31 20:23 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-07-31 20:25 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-31 20:40 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-06 12:30 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-07-31 16:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-31 16:12 ` Willy Tarreau [this message]
2004-07-31 16:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-31 21:06 ` PATCH-2.4: MTU fix for tulip driver Willy Tarreau
2004-07-31 9:35 ` PATCH: VLAN support for 3c59x/3c90x Herbert Xu
2004-07-31 10:01 ` Willy Tarreau
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