Re: [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] net: xilinx: axienet: Report RxRject as rx_dropped

From: Andrew Lunn
Date: Mon Aug 12 2024 - 16:12:12 EST


On Mon, Aug 12, 2024 at 01:41:17PM -0400, Sean Anderson wrote:
> The Receive Frame Rejected interrupt is asserted whenever there was a
> receive error (bad FCS, bad length, etc.) or whenever the frame was
> dropped due to a mismatched address. So this is really a combination of
> rx_otherhost_dropped, rx_length_errors, rx_frame_errors, and
> rx_crc_errors. Mismatched addresses are common and aren't really errors
> at all (much like how fragments are normal on half-duplex links). To
> avoid confusion, report these events as rx_dropped. This better
> reflects what's going on: the packet was received by the MAC but dropped
> before being processed.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sean Anderson <sean.anderson@xxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@xxxxxxx>

Andrew