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Date:      Wed, 8 Dec 2010 10:30:04 -0800
From:      Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@c2i.net>
Cc:        "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, Pyun YongHyeon <yongari@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r216284 - head/sys/dev/usb/net
Message-ID:  <20101208183004.GA10892@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <201012080826.50794.hselasky@c2i.net>
References:  <201012080124.oB81O5Te086075@svn.freebsd.org> <201012080826.50794.hselasky@c2i.net>

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On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 08:26:50AM +0100, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> On Wednesday 08 December 2010 02:24:05 Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> > -                       if (m->m_pkthdr.len > MCLBYTES) {
> > -                               m->m_pkthdr.len = MCLBYTES;
> > -                       }
> 
> You are sure that no packets passed to this code is bigger than MCLBYTES minus 
> overhead by AXE protocol ? Even if MTU is changed by ifconfig?
> 

Yes and Yes.
axe(4) uses uether_ioctl which in turn calls default ether_ioctl.
Users have no way to use jumbo frame on axe(4) since ether_ioctl
does not allow it. Actually axe(4) supports jumbo frame but I don't
think it's worth to implement it due to many limitation of USB
ethernet controller.

> --HPS



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