netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] e1000e: Support RXFCS feature flag.

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Date:	Fri, 10 Feb 2012 23:46:57 +0100
From:	Michał Mirosław <mirqus@...il.com>
To:	greearb@...delatech.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 03/10] e1000e: Support RXFCS feature flag.

2012/2/8  <greearb@...delatech.com>:
> From: Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
>
> This enables enabling/disabling reception of the Ethernet
> FCS.  This can be useful when sniffing packets.
>
> For e1000e, enabling RXFCS can change the default
> behaviour for how the NIC handles CRC.  Disabling RXFCS
> will take the NIC back to defaults, which can be configured
> as part of the module options.
[...]

This is not how I would expect the features to behave. Default value
should be set on probe() time, and when you disable RXFCS it should
just get disabled.

Best Regards,
Michał Mirosław
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