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From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] (1/3) add ethtool ioctl forwarding to vlan
Date: Tue, 03 Aug 2004 11:02:48 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <410FD348.9040301@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040803105017.0774e1db@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> When network devices are used in bridges, the bridge does an ethtool
> ioctl to pick up the speed; this doesn't work with vlans.
> This patch makes any ethtool gets forwarded to the under lying
> real device.  It seemed to make sense to do MII as well.

Looks good to me.  I'll also send a patch against 2.6.8 (when it's out)
to bring the 2.6 VLAN code up to date with the latest 2.4 stuff.

Thanks,
Ben

-- 
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

  reply	other threads:[~2004-08-03 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-08-03 17:50 [PATCH 2.6] (1/3) add ethtool ioctl forwarding to vlan Stephen Hemminger
2004-08-03 18:02 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2004-08-03 20:40   ` [PATCH 2.6] (2/3) vlan propogate carrier and hotplug state Stephen Hemminger
2004-08-03 20:53     ` Ben Greear
2004-08-09 23:46     ` David S. Miller
2004-08-03 20:43   ` [PATCH 2.6] (3/3) vlan - use RCU Stephen Hemminger
2004-08-03 21:03     ` Ben Greear
2004-08-09 23:48     ` David S. Miller
2004-08-04 16:56 ` [PATCH 2.6] (1/3) add ethtool ioctl forwarding to vlan David S. Miller

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