netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH] e1000: Fix for e1000 kills IPMI on a tagged vlan.

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Message-Id: <20090901.174336.138535279.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 01 Sep 2009 17:43:36 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ole@....pl
Cc:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	gospo@...hat.com, david.graham@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH] e1000: Fix for e1000 kills IPMI on a tagged
 vlan.

From: Krzysztof Oledzki <ole@....pl>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 02:53:29 +0200 (CEST)

> 
> 
> On Mon, 31 Aug 2009, Jeff Kirsher wrote:
> 
>> From: Graham, David <david.graham@...el.com>
> 
> <CUT>
>> A complete solution to this issue would require further driver
>> changes.
>> The driver would need to discover if (and which) management VLANs are
>> active before enabling VLAN filtering, so that it could ensure that
>> the
>> managed VLANs are included in the VLAN filter table. This discovery
>> requires that the BMC identifies its VLAN in registers accessible
>> to the driver, and at least on Dell PE2850 systems the BMC does not
>> identify its VLAN to allow such discovery. Intel is pursuing this
>> issue
>> with the BMC vendor.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Dave Graham <david.graham@...el.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
> 
> Tested-by: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@....pl>

Applied, thanks.
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