Re: [PATCH v2 net 6/6] net: mvneta: enable IP checksum with jumbo frames for Armada 38x on Port0

From: Thomas Petazzoni
Date: Thu Nov 26 2015 - 13:34:22 EST


Marcin,

On Thu, 26 Nov 2015 19:08:13 +0100, Marcin Wojtas wrote:
> The Ethernet controller found in the Armada 38x SoC's family support
> TCP/IP checksumming with frame sizes larger than 1600 bytes, however
> only on port 0.
>
> This commit enables it by setting 'tx-csum-limit' to 9800B in
> 'ethernet@70000' node.
>
> Signed-off-by: Marcin Wojtas <mw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v3.18+

This and the previous patch is not a fix, and has no business going in
stable. It is enabling a better functionality, but it is clearly not a
fix.

Thomas
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