netdev - Re: [patch net-next-2.6] net: vlan: make non-hw-accel rx path similar to hw-accel

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Date:	Mon, 04 Apr 2011 22:51:25 +0200
From:	Nicolas de Pesloüan 
	<nicolas.2p.debian@...il.com>
To:	Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
CC:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	davem@...emloft.net, shemminger@...ux-foundation.org,
	kaber@...sh.net, fubar@...ibm.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	andy@...yhouse.net, xiaosuo@...il.com,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Subject: Re: [patch net-next-2.6] net: vlan: make non-hw-accel rx path similar
 to hw-accel

Le 04/04/2011 22:30, Jiri Pirko a écrit :
> Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 09:00:00PM CEST, nicolas.2p.debian@...il.com wrote:
>> Le 04/04/2011 09:14, Jiri Pirko a écrit :
<snip>
>> So you want to move vlan_do_receive into an rx_handler, but want
>> untagging to stay hard-coded at the beginning of __netif_receive_skb.
>> I don't think I understand the rational behind that.
>
> vlan_hwaccel_do_receive/vlan_do_receive could be converted to
> rx_handler, not untagging.

Why do you consider untagging cannot be converted to rx_handler?
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