netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] pegasus: correct buffer sizes

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Date:	Thu, 28 Apr 2016 08:49:37 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>,
	Petko Manolov <petkan@...-labs.com>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"a1291762@...il.com" <a1291762@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] pegasus: correct buffer sizes

On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 16:26 +0000, David Laight wrote:
> From: Johannes Berg
> > 
> > Sent: 27 April 2016 10:44
> > On Wed, 2016-04-27 at 12:33 +0300, Petko Manolov wrote:
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Your guess turned out to be not so wild.;)All Pegasus devices are
> > > configured (by the driver) to append CRC at the end of each RX
> > > packet.However, the driver reports packet length that does not
> > > include it.
> > Interesting, then my guess was wrong though, since the length is
> > reported without it, or am I misunderstanding this?
> ...
> 
> It is even possible that the crc is written into the rx buffer even
> though the length the hardware reports excludes it.
> 

Right. I think a proper test would be to construct some kind of
ethernet-only frames, and check that they come out properly on the
other side. IP always has its own length field, so may be happy with
trailing garbage reported to the network stack, but doing raw ethernet
will let you check that the frame length is correct.

johannes