Subject: Re: 802.1q hardware support
To: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-net
Date: 11/14/2000 09:35:19
On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 04:39:40PM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> 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 :-)

I'm not sure this is a good idea; we'd have to test for M_VLAN1Q 2 times:
one in ether_input and one in vlan_input. I don't know which one costs more.

> 
>  > 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.

Ok. I'll cook up a second patch with these changes.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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