netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/3] net: consolidate 8021q tagging

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Date:	Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:12:10 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	john.r.fastabend@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, jesse@...ira.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/3] net: consolidate 8021q tagging

From: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:22:42 -0700

> Now that VLAN packets are tagged in dev_hard_start_xmit()
> at the bottom of the stack we no longer need to tag them
> in the 8021Q module (Except in the !VLAN_FLAG_REORDER_HDR
> case).
> 
> This allows the accel path and non accel paths to be consolidated.
> Here the vlan_tci in the skb is always set and we allow the
> stack to add the actual tag in dev_hard_start_xmit().
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@...el.com>

Applied.
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