Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755888AbYB0IF7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:05:59 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764274AbYB0IFW (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:05:22 -0500 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:36063 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1764197AbYB0IFU (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:05:20 -0500 Message-ID: <47C519B3.7050200@garzik.org> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 03:05:07 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pekka J Enberg CC: Stephen Hemminger , 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> <47C49BDD.50205@garzik.org> In-Reply-To: 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: 667 Lines: 22 Pekka J Enberg wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2008, Pekka J Enberg wrote: >> Ok, so a sysfs attribute would be sufficient, I suppose? > > s/sysfs attribute/module parameter/ You could do it that way, but really, a non-jumbo default MTU should be sufficient. The user must take proactive action to change the MTU to jumbo at that point... that way its far more likely to get tested, while being non-default, too. 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/