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Message-ID: <285f6402-db06-462b-9ca5-8363027283e1@lunn.ch>
Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2024 02:42:07 +0100
From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To: Sanjuán García, Jorge <Jorge.SanjuanGarcia@...gon.com>
Cc: "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"edumazet@...gle.com" <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	"kuba@...nel.org" <kuba@...nel.org>,
	"pabeni@...hat.com" <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	"s-vadapalli@...com" <s-vadapalli@...com>,
	"grygorii.strashko@...com" <grygorii.strashko@...com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] net: ethernet: ti: am65-cpsw: Add device tree
 property to set max MTU

On Tue, Jan 02, 2024 at 08:19:15AM +0000, Sanjuán García, Jorge wrote:
> The switch supports ethernet frame sizes between 64 and 2024 bytes
> (including VLAN) as stated in the technical reference manual.
> 
> This patch adds a new devicetree property so the switch ports can
> be configured with an MTU higher than the standar 1500 bytes, making
> the max frame length configured on the registers and the max_mtu
> advertised on the network device consistent.

Why do you need a device tree property for this? How many other
drivers have a device tree property like this? Why not set
ndev->max_mtu to 2024 minus overheads?

	Andrew

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