From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
Christophe Devriese <Christophe.Devriese@eurid.eu>
Subject: Re: Linville's L2 rant... -- Re: PATCH Fix bonding active-backup behavior for VLAN interfaces
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 12:52:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060801165218.GF29208@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44CF7CDE.4080601@candelatech.com>
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:10:06AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
> Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:
> >Agreed. I have some very strong opinions on this subject that i could
> >share with you if you want. For example, IMO, I think it would be a lot
> >reasonable to assume that a VLAN or VLANS are attributes of a netdevice
> >(just like IP addresses or MAC addresses are).
>
> As might be expected, I feel that VLANs are much more
> useful as full-featured net devices. I do not believe it is worth
> decreasing functionality to try to 'clean up' the code.
In general, I agree that we shouldn't lose functionality.
I'm curious as to what particularly functionality you fear would be
lost if VLANs were not implemented the way they are now?
Thanks,
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-01 16:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-28 9:44 PATCH Fix bonding active-backup behavior for VLAN interfaces Christophe Devriese
2006-07-28 16:01 ` Ben Greear
2006-07-28 21:50 ` Christophe Devriese
2006-07-28 21:55 ` Ben Greear
2006-07-28 22:15 ` Christophe Devriese
[not found] ` <20060728221455.GA25610@walrus.eth1.org>
[not found] ` <44CA8AF1.3020408@candelatech.com>
2006-07-28 22:58 ` Christophe Devriese
2006-07-28 22:55 ` David Miller
2006-07-28 23:14 ` Ben Greear
2006-07-31 3:50 ` David Miller
2006-07-31 8:15 ` Christophe Devriese
2006-07-31 12:30 ` Linville's L2 rant... -- " John W. Linville
2006-07-31 16:48 ` Christophe Devriese
2006-08-01 1:39 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2006-08-01 12:08 ` John W. Linville
2006-08-01 12:33 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2006-08-01 16:10 ` Ben Greear
2006-08-01 16:52 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2006-08-01 17:04 ` Ben Greear
2006-08-01 19:47 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-08-01 16:48 ` John W. Linville
2006-08-01 16:17 ` Ben Greear
2006-08-01 17:03 ` John W. Linville
2006-08-01 17:21 ` Ben Greear
2006-08-02 9:02 ` Christophe Devriese
2006-08-02 17:37 ` Stackable devices Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-02 17:50 ` Ben Greear
2006-08-08 12:03 ` Christophe Devriese
2006-08-08 16:36 ` Ben Greear
2006-08-09 13:57 ` Christophe Devriese
2006-08-12 18:43 ` Ben Greear
2006-08-12 19:29 ` Ben Greear
2006-08-02 20:58 ` PATCH Fix bonding active-backup behavior for VLAN interfaces David Miller
2006-08-03 9:18 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2006-08-10 18:18 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2006-08-11 6:45 ` David Miller
2006-08-11 8:50 ` Christophe Devriese
2006-08-11 8:53 ` David Miller
2006-08-14 8:16 ` Christophe Devriese
2006-08-14 8:47 ` David Miller
2006-08-14 8:47 ` David Miller
2006-08-03 13:34 ` Christophe Devriese
2006-08-04 1:01 ` Jay Vosburgh
2006-08-15 0:09 ` David Miller
2006-08-15 22:18 ` Jay Vosburgh
2006-08-15 22:27 ` David Miller
2006-08-16 19:30 ` Krzysztof Oledzki
2006-08-20 19:41 ` Christophe Devriese
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20060801165218.GF29208@tuxdriver.com \
--to=linville@tuxdriver.com \
--cc=Christophe.Devriese@eurid.eu \
--cc=davem@davemloft.net \
--cc=greearb@candelatech.com \
--cc=hadi@cyberus.ca \
--cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).