netdev - Re: vlan JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMC250 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-ID: <20100311085412.3413d44b@nehalam>
Date:	Thu, 11 Mar 2010 08:54:12 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
To:	Vito Mattera <vito.m@...t.it>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: vlan JMicron Technologies, Inc. JMC250 PCI Express Gigabit
 Ethernet

On Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:04:57 +0100
Vito Mattera <vito.m@...t.it> wrote:

> I'm trying to add vlan using the network adapter  JMC250 in CentOS 5.3
> with the driver: kmod-jme-1.0.5-1.el5.elrepo.i686.rpm
> 
> 
> when I type the command:
> vconfig add eth0 3
> 
> I have the following message:
> 
> 
> 802.1Q VLAN Support v1.8 Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
> register_vlan_device: Device eth0 has buggy VLAN hw accel
> 
> and no vlan is created.
> 
> what is my mistake ?

Message happens if driver sets hardware vlan filtering but
provides no callback.
The driver appears okay in upstream kernel, most likely something
got lost in backport process in redhat or the copying of redhat
done by centos.
--
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