[U-Boot] [PATCH 2/4] net: designware: Pad small packets

Joe Hershberger joe.hershberger at ni.com
Tue Dec 5 20:27:07 UTC 2017


On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 8:00 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com> wrote:
> Make sure that we pad small packets to a minimum length of 60 bytes
> (without FCS). This is necessary to interface with Ethernet switches
> that will reject RUNT frames unless padded correctly.
>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli at gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/designware.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/designware.c b/drivers/net/designware.c
> index 036d231071ca..10356a9abd0e 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/designware.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/designware.c
> @@ -343,6 +343,8 @@ int designware_eth_enable(struct dw_eth_dev *priv)
>         return 0;
>  }
>
> +#define ETH_ZLEN       60
> +
>  static int _dw_eth_send(struct dw_eth_dev *priv, void *packet, int length)
>  {
>         struct eth_dma_regs *dma_p = priv->dma_regs_p;
> @@ -369,6 +371,8 @@ static int _dw_eth_send(struct dw_eth_dev *priv, void *packet, int length)
>                 return -EPERM;
>         }
>
> +       length = (length < ETH_ZLEN) ? ETH_ZLEN : length;

Why not use max() from include/linux/kernel.h here?


> +
>         memcpy((void *)data_start, packet, length);
>
>         /* Flush data to be sent */
> --
> 2.11.0


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