netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Move vlan acceleration into networking core.

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Date:	Thu, 21 Oct 2010 12:32:33 -0700
From:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
To:	David Dillow <dave@...dillows.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Move vlan acceleration into networking core.

On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 7:02 PM, David Dillow <dave@...dillows.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 16:56 -0700, Jesse Gross wrote:
>> The first eleven patches can be applied immediately, while the last three need
>> to wait until all drivers that support vlan acceleration are updated.  If
>> people agree that this patch set makes sense I will go ahead and switch over
>> the dozen or so drivers that would need to change.
>
> Here's a first pass at converting typhoon to the new methods. It is
> compile tested, but I have to put the hardware back in a machine to do
> some testing, which I may not be able to do before the weekend.
>
> Of course, we could just change it to not offload by default if we need
> to push this sooner.
>
> Applies to net-next-2.6 with the vlan changes.

This is great, thanks.  Much better to have someone who actually knows
what's going on, rather than me trying to randomly guess...
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