AW: Re: AW: Re: VLAN and Network Drivers 2.4.x

jd
2002-04-24T17:03:23Z

> Von: <davem@redhat.com>
> Gesendet: 24.04.2002 18:45
>
> There actually is a flag the driver can set fo this purpose.

Oh. Even in 2.4 ?

> Someone should walk over all the drivers that are known to not
> work currently with VLAN and for them to set the
> NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED flag.

That's a good idea. So vconfig could check, if its possible to create a VLAN on top of such a driver - and issue a message if not.

> Another idea, is to do the opposite, set that flag by default and
> clear it in drivers that we know it works.

It depends - if all drivers must be changed or just those, who support VLAN. I tend to a solution where just the VLAN-capable drivers should be changed.