Re: zero features for a vlan over bond / vlan features

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From: Or Gerlitz
Date: Thursday, April 16, 2009 - 7:11 am

Jay Vosburgh wrote:

Great, I will be happy to test the patch once you have it...


Please correct me if I'm wrong - would be it correct to say that there's a concept 
of "VLAN acceleration" which comes into play when the NIC device advertises  
NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_xxx features and a concept of "VLAN passthrough" which means the
NIC device have a non empty vlan_features bit mask? 

Looking on Linus tree I noted that indeed only few drivers have non-empty vlan_features
and I wonder if the reason for that is indeed lack of HW support or just the driver
maintainers being somehow slow to catch up with the vlan_features concept, Dave - 
any insight here? 

Or.
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zero features for a vlan over bond, Or Gerlitz, (Mon Apr 6, 6:00 am)
Re: zero features for a vlan over bond, Jay Vosburgh, (Tue Apr 7, 7:16 am)
Re: zero features for a vlan over bond, Or Gerlitz, (Tue Apr 7, 3:16 pm)
Re: zero features for a vlan over bond / vlan features , Or Gerlitz, (Thu Apr 16, 7:11 am)
Re: zero features for a vlan over bond / vlan features, Jay Vosburgh, (Thu Apr 23, 4:47 pm)
[PATCH net-next-2.6] bnx2: Update vlan_features, Eric Dumazet, (Thu Jul 23, 1:29 am)
Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bnx2: Update vlan_features, Eric Dumazet, (Thu Jul 23, 5:01 am)
Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bnx2: Update vlan_features, David Miller, (Thu Jul 23, 10:59 am)
Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bnx2: Update vlan_features, Michael Chan, (Thu Jul 23, 5:12 pm)
Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bnx2x: Dont update vlan_features ..., Eilon Greenstein, (Sun Jul 26, 3:53 am)
Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6] bnx2: Update vlan_features, David Miller, (Sun Jul 26, 7:50 pm)