netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: hdlc: Increase maximum HDLC MTU

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Date:   Wed, 4 Jan 2023 22:48:56 +0100
From:   Harald Welte <laforge@...monks.org>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, khc@...waw.pl
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: hdlc: Increase maximum HDLC MTU

Dear Andrew,

On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 06:52:32PM +0100, Andrew Lunn wrote:

> This change does appear to change dev->mtu, not just dev->max_mtu?
> So i'm not sure the commit message is correct?

Thanks for your feedback, which seems correct. 

We've been using this patch in production for more than a year, but our
use cases are all using larger MTU so this might have been unnoticed.

I'll investigate and likely we have to introduce a new HDLC_DEFAULT_MTU
of 1500 to achieve backwards compatibility.

-- 
- Harald Welte <laforge@...monks.org>          https://laforge.gnumonks.org/
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