netdev - Re: [PATCH] via-rhine: hardware VLAN support

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Message-ID: <AANLkTikUe9DR2QTU+72Q8vmGnDyvUtSm_wwCpGEq-M4s@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 5 Nov 2010 11:31:56 -0700
From:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
To:	Roger Luethi <rl@...lgate.ch>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] via-rhine: hardware VLAN support

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Roger Luethi <rl@...lgate.ch> wrote:
> This patch adds VLAN hardware support for Rhine chips.
>
> The driver uses up to 3 additional bytes of buffer space when extracting
> 802.1Q headers; PKT_BUF_SZ should still be sufficient.
>
> The initial code was provided by David Lv. I reworked it to use standard
> kernel facilities. Coding style clean up mostly follows via-velocity.

This uses the old interfaces for vlan acceleration.  We're working to
switch drivers over to use the new methods and the old ones will be
going away in the future.  It would be great if we can avoid adding
more code that uses those interfaces.
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