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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] VLAN: kill_vid is only useful for VLAN filtering
 devices
Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:47:34 -0400
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Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
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Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The interface for network device VLAN extension was confusing.
> The kill_vid function is only really useful for devices that do
> hardware filtering. Devices that only do VLAN receiption without
> filtering were being forced to provide the hook, and there were
> bugs in those devices.
> 
> Many drivers had kill_vid routine that called vlan_group_set_device, with
> NULL, but that is done already.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>

applied 1-5 to #upstream-fixes