Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | From | Andrea Merello <> | Date | Sun, 5 Jun 2011 03:14:49 +0200 | Subject | [PATCH] e100: Fix inconsistency in bad frames handling |
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Hello!
In e100 driver it seems that the intention was to accept bad frames in promiscuous mode and loopback mode. I think this is evident because of the following code in the driver:
if (nic->flags & promiscuous || nic->loopback) { config->rx_save_bad_frames = 0x1; /* 1=save, 0=discard */ config->rx_discard_short_frames = 0x0; /* 1=discard, 0=save */ config->promiscuous_mode = 0x1; /* 1=on, 0=off */ }
However this intention is not really realized because bad frames are discarded later by SW check. This patch finally honors the above intention, making the RX code to let bad frames to pass when the NIC is in promiscuous or loopback mode.
This helped me a lot to debug an FPGA ethernet core. Maybe it can be also useful to someone else..
Thanks Andrea
--- drivers/net/e100_orig.c 2011-06-14 23:29:38.322267075 +0200 +++ drivers/net/e100.c 2011-06-14 23:34:10.700791472 +0200 @@ -1975,7 +1975,8 @@ static int e100_rx_indicate(struct nic * skb_put(skb, actual_size); skb->protocol = eth_type_trans(skb, nic->netdev);
- if (unlikely(!(rfd_status & cb_ok))) { + if (unlikely(!(nic->flags & promiscuous || nic->loopback) && + !(rfd_status & cb_ok))) { /* Don't indicate if hardware indicates errors */ dev_kfree_skb_any(skb); } else if (actual_size > ETH_DATA_LEN + VLAN_ETH_HLEN) { -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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