netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] rocker: remove support for legacy VLAN ndo ops

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Message-ID: <556D363A.5010005@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Date:	Tue, 02 Jun 2015 13:51:06 +0900
From:	Toshiaki Makita <makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp>
To:	sfeldma@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
CC:	jiri@...nulli.us, simon.horman@...ronome.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 5/5] rocker: remove support for legacy VLAN ndo
 ops

On 2015/06/02 3:39, sfeldma@...il.com wrote:
> From: Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>
> 
> Remove support for legacy ndo ops
> .ndo_vlan_rx_add_vid/.ndo_vlan_rx_kill_vid.  Rocker will use
> bridge_setlink/dellink exclusively for VLAN add/del operations.
> 
> The legacy ops are needed if using 8021q driver module to setup VLANs on
> the port.  But an alternative exists in using bridge_setlink/delink to
> setup VLANs, which doesn't depend on 8021q module.  So rocker will switch
> to the newer setlink/dellink ops.  VLANs can added/delete from the port,
> regardless if port is bridged or not, using the bridge commands:
> 
> 	bridge vlan [add|del] vid VID dev DEV self

Hi Scott,

This doesn't look transparent with bridge.

Before this patch, I was able to add vid in the same way as software bridge:

  ip link set DEV master br0
  bridge vlan add vid VID dev DEV

Now I need to add "self", which is different from software bridge...

Toshiaki Makita

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