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

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Message-Id: <20101021.013333.189715307.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 21 Oct 2010 01:33:33 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jesse@...ira.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/14] Move vlan acceleration into networking core.

From: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:56:00 -0700

> Hardware vlan acceleration behaves fairly differently from other types of
> offloading, which limits its usefulness.  This patch series aims to bring
> it more in line with other common forms of acceleration, such as checksum
> offloading and TSO.  In doing this it eliminates common driver bugs, increases
> flexibility, and improves performance, while reducing the number of lines of
> code.
> 
> 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.

First 11 patches applied, thanks!
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