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Message-ID: <20101109061831.GA8730@core.hellgate.ch> Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2010 07:18:32 +0100 From: Roger Luethi <rl@...lgate.ch> To: Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com> Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH] via-rhine: hardware VLAN support On Mon, 08 Nov 2010 12:53:57 -0800, Jesse Gross wrote: > On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 8:21 AM, Roger Luethi <rl@...lgate.ch> wrote: > > On Fri, 05 Nov 2010 11:31:56 -0700, Jesse Gross wrote: > >> On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 3:43 AM, Roger Luethi <rl@...lgate.ch> wrote: > >> > This patch adds VLAN hardware support for Rhine chips. > >> > >> 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. > > > > Can you point me to a driver that has been switched to use the new methods > > already? Is there some other form of documentation? > > bnx2 is an example of a driver that has been converted. The commit > that actually made the change was > 7d0fd2117e3d0550d7987b3aff2bfbc0244cf7c6, which should highlight the > differences. A key point is that drivers should no longer reference > vlan groups at all. Thank you. I will take a look and submit a revised patch. -- 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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