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Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 08:18:06 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Muhammad Ahmad <muhammad.ahmad@emumba.com>
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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] lib/librte_net/rte_ether.h:changed
 RTE_ETHER_MAX_LEN
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On Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:50:36 +0500
Muhammad Ahmad <muhammad.ahmad@emumba.com> wrote:

> Change the RTE_ETHER_MAX_LEN from 1518 to 1526
> 
> Bugzilla ID: 296
> 
> Fixes: c5b2d13 (net: add rte prefix to ether defines)
> 
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> Cc: Oliver Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
> 
> Reported-by: LAVA <lavaraj@gmail.com>
> Suggested-by: LAVA <lavaraj@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Muhammad Ahmad <muhammad.ahmad@emumba.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_net/rte_ether.h | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_net/rte_ether.h b/lib/librte_net/rte_ether.h
> index e069dc7fe..8953107f3 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_net/rte_ether.h
> +++ b/lib/librte_net/rte_ether.h
> @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ extern "C" {
>  	(RTE_ETHER_ADDR_LEN * 2 + \
>  		RTE_ETHER_TYPE_LEN) /**< Length of Ethernet header. */
>  #define RTE_ETHER_MIN_LEN   64    /**< Minimum frame len, including CRC. */
> -#define RTE_ETHER_MAX_LEN   1518  /**< Maximum frame len, including CRC. */
> +#define RTE_ETHER_MAX_LEN   1526  /**< Maximum frame len, including CRC. */
>  #define RTE_ETHER_MTU       \
>  	(RTE_ETHER_MAX_LEN - RTE_ETHER_HDR_LEN - \
>  		RTE_ETHER_CRC_LEN) /**< Ethernet MTU. */

No that is abi change would impact a lot of code and drivers.
The problem is the comment is wrong, not the value.