Re: [PATCH] dsa: tag_rtl4_a: Bump min packet size

[Florian Fainelli]

You would want your subject to be:

net: dsa: tag_rtl4_a: Bump min packet size

On 10/27/23 13:21, Linus Walleij wrote:
> It was reported that the "LuCI" web UI was not working properly
> with a device using the RTL8366RB switch. Disabling the egress
> port tagging code made the switch work again, but this is not
> a good solution as we want to be able to direct traffic to a
> certain port.
>
> It turns out that sometimes, but not always, small packets are
> dropped by the switch for no reason.

And we are positive that the Ethernet MAC is also properly padding 
frames before having them ingress the switch?

> If we pad the ethernet frames to a minimum of ETH_FRAME_LEN + FCS
> (1518 bytes) everything starts working fine.

That is quite unprecedented, either the switch is very bogus or there is 
something else we do not fully understand...
--
Florian