Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932418AbVI2VyL (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:54:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932295AbVI2VyK (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:54:10 -0400 Received: from clock-tower.bc.nu ([81.2.110.250]:22955 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932418AbVI2VyJ (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Sep 2005 17:54:09 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.14-rc2] aoe [1/3]: explicitly set minimum packet length to ETH_ZLEN From: Alan Cox To: "Ed L. Cashin" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg K-H In-Reply-To: <87wtkzbz5z.fsf@coraid.com> References: <87wtkzbz5z.fsf@coraid.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2005 23:21:31 +0100 Message-Id: <1128032491.9290.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 532 Lines: 14 On Iau, 2005-09-29 at 12:45 -0400, Ed L. Cashin wrote: > Signed-off-by: "Ed L. Cashin" > > Explicitly set the minimum packet length to ETH_ZLEN and zero the > packet data. You still haven't explained why this is neccessary. The drivers should be doing it for you. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/