On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 13:00 +0100, Emil Goode wrote: > On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 07:40:58AM +0100, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-02-10 at 00:06 +0100, Emil Goode wrote: > > > The AX88772B occasionally send rx packets that cross urb boundaries > > > and the remaining partial packet is sent with no hardware header. > > > When the buffer with a partial packet is of less number of octets > > > than the value of hard_header_len the buffer is discarded by the > > > usbnet module. This is causing dropped packages and error messages > > > in dmesg. > > > > > > This can be reproduced by using ping with a packet size > > > between 1965-1976. > > > > Well, then how about simply removing the check? > > It seems to have outlived its usefulness. > > > > Regards > > Oliver > > > > > > I did consider that and I think it is probably the best thing to do. > However, I think the removal of the check could have negative effects > on the other minidrivers, at least the qmi_wwan minidriver explicitly > states that it is depending on this check to be made in rx_complete(). <censored>. Oh well. But how about merging it with FLAG_MULTI_PACKET? I really don't want to add more flags. There is a point where enough flags make absurd having a common code. We are closing in on that point. Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
