Re: VLAN and Network Drivers 2.4.x

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Sat Apr 27 2002 - 21:43:02 EST


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

> 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.
   
This will tell us exactly nothing. It will continue to tell us
nothing until I make the change whereby NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED is set
by default and devices known to work are updated to clear it.

Please don't bother posting the results, we know what will happen.
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