From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: net 01/06: Add STP demux layer
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:51:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <486D1189.2060409@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080703104008.0bb74b6e@extreme>
Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 3 Jul 2008 19:04:42 +0200 (MEST)
> Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> wrote:
>
>> net: Add STP demux layer
>>
>> Add small STP demux layer for demuxing STP PDUs based on MAC address.
>> This is needed to run both GARP and STP in parallel (or even load the
>> modules) since both use LLC_SAP_BSPAN.
>>
>>
> Why not just have LLC handle multiple registrations for same SAP?
I considered that, but it looks like a lot more work without a
clear advantage - nothing else seems to need it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-03 17:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-03 17:04 net 00/06: add GARP/GVRP support Patrick McHardy
2008-07-03 17:04 ` net 01/06: Add STP demux layer Patrick McHardy
2008-07-03 17:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2008-07-03 17:51 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-07-03 17:04 ` bridge 02/06: Use STP demux Patrick McHardy
2008-07-03 17:04 ` net 03/06: Add GARP applicant-only participant Patrick McHardy
2008-07-03 17:04 ` vlan 04/06: Change vlan_dev_set_vlan_flag() to handle multiple flags at once Patrick McHardy
2008-07-03 17:04 ` vlan 05/06: Move device unregistration before lower dev cleanup Patrick McHardy
2008-07-03 17:04 ` vlan 06/06: Add GVRP support Patrick McHardy
2008-07-06 4:33 ` net 00/06: add GARP/GVRP support David Miller
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