[PATCH] net: NEWEMAC: Fix problem with mtu > 4080 on non TAH equipped 4xx PPC's
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Wed Jan 16 18:15:44 EST 2008
On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 08:11 +0100, Stefan Roese wrote:
> Currently, all non TAH equipped 4xx PPC's call emac_start_xmit() upon
> xmit. This routine doesn't check if the frame length exceeds the max.
> MAL buffer size.
>
> This patch now changes the driver to call emac_start_xmit_sg() on all
> GigE platforms and not only the TAH equipped ones (440GX). This enables
> an MTU of 9000 instead 4080.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stefan Roese <sr at denx.de>
> ---
Acked-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh at kernel.crashing.org>
Jeff, please pick up for .25.
Ben.
> drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c | 14 ++++----------
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
> index cb06280..b24bd2d 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ibm_newemac/core.c
> @@ -1297,7 +1297,6 @@ static int emac_start_xmit(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
> return emac_xmit_finish(dev, len);
> }
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_IBM_NEW_EMAC_TAH
> static inline int emac_xmit_split(struct emac_instance *dev, int slot,
> u32 pd, int len, int last, u16 base_ctrl)
> {
> @@ -1410,9 +1409,6 @@ static int emac_start_xmit_sg(struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *ndev)
> DBG2(dev, "stopped TX queue" NL);
> return 1;
> }
> -#else
> -# define emac_start_xmit_sg emac_start_xmit
> -#endif /* !defined(CONFIG_IBM_NEW_EMAC_TAH) */
>
> /* Tx lock BHs */
> static void emac_parse_tx_error(struct emac_instance *dev, u16 ctrl)
> @@ -2683,13 +2679,8 @@ static int __devinit emac_probe(struct of_device *ofdev,
>
> /* Fill in the driver function table */
> ndev->open = &emac_open;
> -#ifdef CONFIG_IBM_NEW_EMAC_TAH
> - if (dev->tah_dev) {
> - ndev->hard_start_xmit = &emac_start_xmit_sg;
> + if (dev->tah_dev)
> ndev->features |= NETIF_F_IP_CSUM | NETIF_F_SG;
> - } else
> -#endif
> - ndev->hard_start_xmit = &emac_start_xmit;
> ndev->tx_timeout = &emac_tx_timeout;
> ndev->watchdog_timeo = 5 * HZ;
> ndev->stop = &emac_close;
> @@ -2697,8 +2688,11 @@ static int __devinit emac_probe(struct of_device *ofdev,
> ndev->set_multicast_list = &emac_set_multicast_list;
> ndev->do_ioctl = &emac_ioctl;
> if (emac_phy_supports_gige(dev->phy_mode)) {
> + ndev->hard_start_xmit = &emac_start_xmit_sg;
> ndev->change_mtu = &emac_change_mtu;
> dev->commac.ops = &emac_commac_sg_ops;
> + } else {
> + ndev->hard_start_xmit = &emac_start_xmit;
> }
> SET_ETHTOOL_OPS(ndev, &emac_ethtool_ops);
>
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