linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ip6erspan: remove the incorrect mtu limit for ip6erspan

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Date:   Tue, 8 Oct 2019 19:53:22 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@...s.chinamobile.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        William Tu <u9012063@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip6erspan: remove the incorrect mtu limit for ip6erspan

On Tue,  8 Oct 2019 17:56:03 +0800, Haishuang Yan wrote:
> ip6erspan driver calls ether_setup(), after commit 61e84623ace3
> ("net: centralize net_device min/max MTU checking"), the range
> of mtu is [min_mtu, max_mtu], which is [68, 1500] by default.
> 
> It causes the dev mtu of the erspan device to not be greater
> than 1500, this limit value is not correct for ip6erspan tap
> device.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haishuang Yan <yanhaishuang@...s.chinamobile.com>

Applied, but next time please make sure you add a Fixes tag, 
and put [PATCH net] in the subject for bug fixes. Thanks!