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Re: misc/37578 bce(4) man page change



>  > The man page for bce(4) lists under bugs that there is no vlan
>  > support. This is actually not true. I just never tracked down in the
>  > spec if all special cases that use extra bytes are covered. But
>  > since I don't think we use these special cases, it would probably
>  > be fine to remove this statement, as the bce driver has always
>  > had support for the increased mtu.
>  
>  should the man page be changed to "There is no hardware VLAN support"
>  then ?

I think the hardware does support it.  However bce(4) doesn't
have ETHERCAP_VLAN_MTU enabled.  Testing I've done (with the
BCM4400 core in the BCM5365) shows ETHERCAP_VLAN_MTU to work
fine, but the real BCM4401 might be slightly different.


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