[U-Boot] [PATCH] eth_receive(): Do not assume that caller always wants full packet.

[Wolfgang Denk]

Dear Piotr =?iso-8859-2?q?Zi=EAcik?=,

In message <200907161151.59353.kosmo at semihalf.com> you wrote:
>
> > > This patch fixes above problem by allowing partial packet read.
> >
> > seems like it could easily introduce incorrect behavior in existing
> > applications.  the code also sounds a bit risky ... your change would mean
> > people could read the leading part, but the rest is lost ?
> 
> discaded, if buffer is too small. This behaviour is similar to Linux recv()

But recv() is on another level. Here we are dealing with receiving raw
ethernet frames.

> function. I do not see why we have to force application to prepare 1,5kB
> buffer for received packets when for example it waits for ARP reply.

Come on - what exactly is the extra effort you have to spend to
prepare a bigger buffer?

Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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