Re: [PATCH] net: ethernet: stmmac: add ARP management

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Tue Jan 17 2017 - 12:19:51 EST


On 01/17/2017 08:56 AM, Christophe Roullier wrote:
> DWC_ether_qos supports the Address Recognition
> Protocol (ARP) Offload for IPv4 packets. This feature
> allows the processing of the IPv4 ARP request packet
> in the receive path and generating corresponding ARP
> response packet in the transmit path. DWC_ether_qos
> generates the ARP reply packets for appropriate ARP
> request packets.


> diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
> index 4daa8a3..92a0db9 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_platform.c
> @@ -306,6 +306,7 @@ struct plat_stmmacenet_data *
> plat->has_gmac = 0;
> plat->pmt = 1;
> plat->tso_en = of_property_read_bool(np, "snps,tso");
> + plat->arp_en = of_property_read_bool(np, "snps,arp");

You introduce a new property that needs to be documented in the Device
Tree binding document for stmmac.
--
Florian