• Luis R. Rodriguez's avatar
    ath5k: drop warning on jumbo frames · 9637e516
    Luis R. Rodriguez authored
    Jumbo frames are not supported, and if they are seen it is likely
    a bogus frame so just silently discard them instead of warning on
    them all time. Also, instead of dropping them immediately though
    move the check *after* we check for all sort of frame errors. This
    should enable us to discard these frames if the hardware picks
    other bogus items first. Lets see if we still get those jumbo
    counters increasing still with this.
    
    Jumbo frames would happen if we tell hardware we can support
    a small 802.11 chunks of DMA'd frame, hardware would split RX'd
    frames into parts and we'd have to reconstruct them in software.
    This is done with USB due to the bulk size but with ath5k we
    already provide a good limit to hardware and this should not be
    happening.
    
    This is reported quite often and if it fills the logs then this
    needs to be addressed and to avoid spurious reports.
    
    Cc: stable@kernel.org
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLuis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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