Subject: Re: CVS commit: src/sys/dev/ic
To: None <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
From: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
List: source-changes
Date: 11/13/2006 03:10:06
thorpej@shagadelic.org wrote:

> > (though rtl8169.c should have some flag which indicates RTL8168 quirk,
> >  which can't xfer RX packets into unaligned buffers)
> 
> So, we'd have a RE_ETHER_ALIGN(sc) macro that wraps it?  Sounds good.

I still wonder if RTL8168 could appear on !__NO_STRICT_ALIGNMENT hosts.

> What would ETHER_PAD_LEN's semantics and usage?

It's (ETHER_MIN_LEN - ETHER_CRC_LEN), used as threshold
to pad short TX packets manually.
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Izumi Tsutsui