On Thu, 2020-12-10 at 02:25 +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 08:17:24PM +0100, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> > All the buffers and registers are already set up appropriately for an
> > MTU slightly above 1500, so we just need to expose this to the
> > networking stack. AFAICT, there's no need to implement .ndo_change_mtu
> > when the receive buffers are always set up to support the max_mtu.
> >
> > This fixes several warnings during boot on our mpc8309-board with an
> > embedded mv88e6250 switch:
> >
> > mv88e6085 mdio@e0102120:10: nonfatal error -34 setting MTU 1500 on port 0
> > ...
> > mv88e6085 mdio@e0102120:10: nonfatal error -34 setting MTU 1500 on port 4
> > ucc_geth e0102000.ethernet eth1: error -22 setting MTU to 1504 to include
> > DSA overhead
> >
> > The last line explains what the DSA stack tries to do: achieving an MTU
> > of 1500 on-the-wire requires that the master netdevice connected to
> > the CPU port supports an MTU of 1500+the tagging overhead.
> >
> > Fixes: bfcb813203e6 ("net: dsa: configure the MTU for switch ports")
> > Cc: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.olt...@nxp.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <rasmus.villem...@prevas.dk>
>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch>
>
> Andrew
I don't see this in any kernel, seems stuck? Maybe because the series as a
whole is not approved?
Jocke
