netdev - Re: [PATCH] bgmac: omit the fcs

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Message-ID: <1362089768.15793.49.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Thu, 28 Feb 2013 14:16:08 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>
Cc:	Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bgmac: omit the fcs

On Thu, 2013-02-28 at 18:57 +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:

> Is this a real fix?
> 
> Don't get me wrong, but it sounds a little like a workaround for some
> issue in another network layer ;)

It looks a real fix in a forwarding workload, or else MTU would need 4
extra bytes.



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