Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1765140AbYBZXIe (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:08:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762820AbYBZXIY (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:08:24 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:37217 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754773AbYBZXIX (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:08:23 -0500 Message-ID: <47C49BDD.50205@garzik.org> Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 18:08:13 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Hemminger CC: Pekka J Enberg , romieu@fr.zoreil.com, sorbica@icplus.com.tw, jesse@icplus.com.tw, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] ipg: add jumbo frame support kconfig option References: <20080226123247.2b63bbf0@extreme> In-Reply-To: <20080226123247.2b63bbf0@extreme> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.3 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 963 Lines: 27 Stephen Hemminger wrote: >> From: Pekka Enberg >> >> Convert the internal JUMBO_FRAME #ifdef to CONFIG_IP1000_JUMBO_FRAME proper and >> fix compilation errors. >> >> Cc: Francois Romieu >> Cc: Sorbica Shieh >> Cc: Jesse Huang >> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg > > Please don't do this as a config option. Config options seem like a good idea > to developers but are difficult for distributions. Either support jumbo > frames by default or not at all. Agreed, but to be more specific... always compile in jumbo frame support. You don't have to enable it at runtime by default, though. Jeff -- 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/