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Message-ID: <4662E296.5010505@garzik.org> Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:47:34 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> CC: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>, Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] VLAN: kill_vid is only useful for VLAN filtering devices Stephen Hemminger wrote: > The interface for network device VLAN extension was confusing. > The kill_vid function is only really useful for devices that do > hardware filtering. Devices that only do VLAN receiption without > filtering were being forced to provide the hook, and there were > bugs in those devices. > > Many drivers had kill_vid routine that called vlan_group_set_device, with > NULL, but that is done already. > > Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org> applied 1-5 to #upstream-fixes - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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