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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

  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

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