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DEQNA doc inconsistency



I was reading a PDF of - or, let me precise, supposedly of -
EK-DEQNA-UG-001, the DEQNA "user's guide" (which includes programming
doc).  It looks like a scan of a paper copy.

But I see an inconsistency in it.  In receive descriptors, in the first
status word, page 58 of the PDF, page 4-9 in internal page numbering,
says that bit 12 is

	DISCARD.  When set, indicates that OVF (bit 00), CRCERR (bit
	01), and SHORT (bit 03) are valid (that is, they pertain to
	this packet).  This bit is never set unless one of the other
	three bits is set.  Sets bit 14.

But the next page says that bits 07:03 are reserved.  And bit 2 is
called FRAME, so it's not just a typo in the bit number for SHORT.

if_qereg.h defines both QE_FRAME and QE_SHORT, but if_qe.c doesn't use
either one as far as I can see.  Interestingly, there is a comment on
QE_SHORT giving a semantic for it, one which as far as I can see is not
supported by EK-DEQNA-UG-001, and the file has a DEC copyright and
license notice, so I am inclined to suspect that it may know better
than the PDF.

I don't suppose anyone here knows what the real story is?

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