Re: VLAN and Network Drivers 2.4.x

David S. Miller
2002-04-28T02:53:07Z

From: jd@epcnet.de
Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2002 22:34:09 +0200

> We don't call it NETIF_F_VLAN because the hope is that eventually
> it will be rare for a network device to not be able to support it.
> Not the other day around.

I don't know how many cards won't support VLAN nowadays. But i will test
these changes with my third party driver (just recompile it against pre-2.4.19)
and report the results.

This will tell us exactly nothing. It will continue to tell us
nothing until I make the change whereby NETIF_F_VLAN_CHALLENGED is set
by default and devices known to work are updated to clear it.

Please don't bother posting the results, we know what will happen.