Re: [PATCH net] team: use ETH_MAX_MTU as max mtu

From: Jiri Pirko
Date: Mon Mar 06 2017 - 09:01:31 EST


Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 02:48:58PM CET, jarod@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>This restores the ability to set a team device's mtu to anything higher
>than 1500. Similar to the reported issue with bonding, the team driver
>calls ether_setup(), which sets an initial max_mtu of 1500, while the
>underlying hardware can handle something much larger. Just set it to
>ETH_MAX_MTU to support all possible values, and the limitations of the
>underlying devices will prevent setting anything too large.
>
>Fixes: 91572088e3fd ("net: use core MTU range checking in core net infra")
>CC: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
>CC: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>CC: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxxx>