netdev - Re: [PATCH] be2net: Adding support for 802.1ad (q-in-q mode)

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jul 2009 14:50:37 +0530
From:	Sarveshwar Bandi <sarveshwarb@...verengines.com>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] be2net: Adding support for 802.1ad (q-in-q mode)

On 23/07/09 11:07 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Sarveshwar Bandi wrote:
> > On 23/07/09 10:47 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> >> Sarveshwar Bandi wrote:
> >>> Please review and apply patch to net-next tree. Patch implements the 
> >>> support for q-in-q mode.
> >>
> >> Please describe your change more precisely. How does this interact with
> >> the stack and which VID is propagated to the VLAN code?
> >
> > Patch has code to check if the controller is in q-in-q mode. When the packet
> > has two vids, only the inner vid is passed onto the stack. The stack is never
> > made aware of the outer vid.
> 
> But you're still using the outer VLAN group when passing the packet to
> the VLAN code, so the association to the correct VLAN device can't work.
In the case where packet comes with two vlan ids, the rx descriptor contains
the inner vlan id and qnq is set to 1, the driver indicates this vid to the
stack.
In the case where packet comes with single vlan id, the rx descriptor
contains the outer vlan id and qnq is set to 0, the driver indicates this
packet as a non-vlan packet to the stack by calling netif_receive_skb.
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