linux-kernel - Re: [RFC/PATCH] ipg: add jumbo frame support kconfig option

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Message-ID: <20080226123247.2b63bbf0@extreme>
Date:	Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:32:47 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	romieu@...zoreil.com, sorbica@...lus.com.tw, jesse@...lus.com.tw,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH] ipg: add jumbo frame support kconfig option

> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> 
> Convert the internal JUMBO_FRAME #ifdef to CONFIG_IP1000_JUMBO_FRAME proper and
> fix compilation errors.
> 
> Cc: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
> Cc: Sorbica Shieh <sorbica@...lus.com.tw>
> Cc: Jesse Huang <jesse@...lus.com.tw>
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>

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.
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