Re: VLAN and Network Drivers 2.4.x

jd@epcnet.de
Sat, 27 Apr 2002 22:34:09 +0200

> Von: <davem@redhat.com>
> Gesendet: 26.04.2002 02:57
>
> BTW, your mail client's mangling of subject lines is REALLY ANNOYING.

Sorry, i fixed it.

> We don't call it NETIF_F_VLAN because the hope is that eventually
> it will be rare for a network device to not be able to support it.
> Not the other day around.

I don't know how many cards won't support VLAN nowadays. But i will test
these changes with my third party driver (just recompile it against pre-2.4.19)
and report the results.

Greetings

Jochen Dolze

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