Re: Various 802.1Q VLAN driver patches. [try2]

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>]

"David S. Miller" wrote:
> 
>    From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
>    Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 10:45:39 -0800
> 
>    +#if defined(CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q) || defined(CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q_MODULE)
> 
>    Is this avoidable somehow?
> 
> It's stupid to have all the overhead when vlans aren't even
> being built into the kernel.
> 
> That was my original impetus.
> 
> It's costly in some cases, when you have the TXDs on the chip
> you can avoid an entire PIO for each packet.

I'm pretty sure Andrew realizes this.  I can see two valid complaints,

1) you don't need ugly ifdefs in the code itself -- define a no-op
static inline function for when !VLAN

2) IIRC Alan or somebody is trying to get rid of CONFIG_xxx_MODULE,
because it doesn't really cover the case of when somebody builds VLAN
"later on" as a module, but disables it initially.

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