Subject: Re: 802.1q hardware support
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/13/2000 16:39:40
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:02:41PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Note that M_VLAN1Q/mh_info can be used for the receive part as well,
> to avoid calling vlan_input_tag() from the driver itself (will be from
> if_input).
Yes, please. Symmetry is good. It also means you can eliminate
#if NVLAN from the ti driver. It also means you can eliminte that
extra vlan_input_ifv() function, and replace it with a simple goto :-)
> Note that the lines in the patch below won't match for if_ti.c: to get
> hardware tagging to work I had to update the firmware, so I started pulling
> up changes from FreeBSD. This will give us support for the copper variant
> of the board (gigabit over cat5).
>
> Comments ? I'd like to commit this soon, so that I can start working
> on hardware checksum (I'm sure someone would ask :)
Besides my comments above and please put the info field in the pkthdr,
it looks good.
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>