netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH bridge 0/5] Add basic VLAN support to bridges

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Message-ID: <5037ED81.5090303@gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 24 Aug 2012 23:09:21 +0200
From:	Nicolas de Pesloüan 
	<nicolas.2p.debian@...il.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
CC:	vyasevic@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH bridge 0/5] Add basic VLAN support to bridges

Le 24/08/2012 22:44, Stephen Hemminger a écrit :
<snip>

> The vlan map table would be helpful, but the Spanning Tree implementation
> doesn't have a clue about what it means.

Yes, but a possibly future userland implementation of MSTP (or PVST) would benefit from the ability 
to manage per VLAN port states.

So at least we should have this in mind while integrating VLAN into the bridge code.

	Nicolas.
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