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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6] net: add Faraday FTMAC100 10/100 Ethernet driver
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
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Le mardi 01 mars 2011 à 13:20 +0800, Po-Yu Chuang a écrit :

> That means, since every rx buffer is large enough, it is impossible to
> get a multi-segment packets.
> 
> So I simplified ftmac100_rx_packet().

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>

I am only wondering then if not using fragments would be faster then
(eventually doing copybreaks for small frames like tg3)

But if you plan to get new hw soon, you have the infrastructure...