[U-Boot] net: asix: don't pad odd-length TX packets

[Marek Vasut]

On Friday, March 07, 2014 at 11:27:37 PM, Tom Rini wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 01:27:02PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> > From: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> > 
> > For Ethernet/USB RX packets, the ASIX HW pads odd-sized packets so that
> > they have an even size. Currently, asix_recv() does remove this padding,
> > and asic_send() adds equivalent padding in the TX path. However, the HW
> > does not appear to need this packing for TX packets in practical testing
> > with "ASIX Elec. Corp. AX88x72A 000001" Vendor: 0x0b95 Product 0x7720
> > Version 0.1. The Linux kernel does no such padding for the TX path.
> > 
> > Remove the padding from the TX path:
> > 
> > * For consistency with the Linux kernel.
> > * NVIDIA has a Tegra simulator which validates that the length of USB
> > 
> >   packets sent to an ASIX device matches the packet length value inside
> >   the packet data. Having U-Boot and the kernel do the same thing when
> >   creating the TX packets simplifies the simulator's validation.
> > 
> > Cc: Lucas Stach <dev at lynxeye.de>
> > Cc: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> > Cc: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren at nvidia.com>
> > Acked-by: Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org>
> > Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> > Tested-by: Marek Vasut <marex at denx.de>
> > Tested-by: Gerhard Sittig <gsi at denx.de>
> 
> Applied to u-boot/master, thanks!

Uh, where did Joe disappear to anyway ?

Best regards,
Marek Vasut