From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
Willy Tarreau <willy@w.ods.org>,
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>,
akpm@osdl.org, alan@redhat.com, jgarzik@redhat.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: VLAN support for 3c59x/3c90x
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 10:13:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <410BD356.8010205@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <410BC655.4040509@pobox.com>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Matti Aarnio wrote:
>
>> For this IFCONFIG MTU issue, I would rather have the VLAN code to ask
>> the underlaying driver of what MTU can be supported, than just blindly
>> presume that 1500 will be functional for e.g. eth0.2 (like it does now)
>
>
> The VLAN code could certainly be updated to poke at the lower level
> driver MTU.
Please do not do this without more discussion. This could easily
break the current ability to use the regular ethernet device in the
normal manner, regardless of the existence of VLANs. I'd rather
not loose this capability across the board just to work around a few
broken drivers.
Thanks,
Ben
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-31 17:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-28 12:42 PATCH: VLAN support for 3c59x/3c90x Alan Cox
2004-07-28 21:33 ` Ben Greear
2004-07-28 22:15 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-28 22:30 ` Ben Greear
2004-07-29 17:19 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-28 21:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-28 21:45 ` Ben Greear
2004-07-29 4:18 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-07-30 2:20 ` Herbert Xu
2004-07-30 12:10 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-07-31 3:57 ` Herbert Xu
2004-07-31 8:33 ` Willy Tarreau
[not found] ` <200407310846.i6V8k3qq006659@uai.com.br>
2004-07-31 8:57 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-07-31 9:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-31 10:11 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-07-31 14:12 ` Matti Aarnio
2004-07-31 16:18 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-31 17:13 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2004-07-31 17:03 ` Ben Greear
2004-07-31 17:05 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-07-31 17:21 ` Ben Greear
2004-07-31 20:16 ` Lee Revell
2004-07-31 20:23 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-07-31 20:25 ` Alan Cox
2004-07-31 20:40 ` Lee Revell
2004-08-06 12:30 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-07-31 16:05 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-31 16:12 ` Willy Tarreau
2004-07-31 16:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2004-07-31 21:06 ` PATCH-2.4: MTU fix for tulip driver Willy Tarreau
2004-07-31 9:35 ` PATCH: VLAN support for 3c59x/3c90x Herbert Xu
2004-07-31 10:01 ` Willy Tarreau
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