netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net] net: dsa: don't fail to probe if we couldn't set the MTU

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Message-Id: <20200422.192346.785986932807523843.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Wed, 22 Apr 2020 19:23:46 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     olteanv@...il.com
Cc:     andrew@...n.ch, f.fainelli@...il.com, vivien.didelot@...il.com,
        o.rempel@...gutronix.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net] net: dsa: don't fail to probe if we couldn't
 set the MTU

From: Vladimir Oltean <olteanv@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2020 20:18:53 +0300

> From: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>
> 
> There is no reason to fail the probing of the switch if the MTU couldn't
> be configured correctly (either the switch port itself, or the host
> port) for whatever reason. MTU-sized traffic probably won't work, sure,
> but we can still probably limp on and support some form of communication
> anyway, which the users would probably appreciate more.
> 
> Fixes: bfcb813203e6 ("net: dsa: configure the MTU for switch ports")
> Reported-by: Oleksij Rempel <o.rempel@...gutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@....com>

Applied, thanks Vlad.