From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: roy.qing.li@gmail.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, claudiu.manoil@freescale.com,
Yanjun.Zhu@windriver.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Documentation: document the gianfar tx vlan offload issue
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 09:56:33 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140404.095633.1081341257454844906.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1396580685-17156-1-git-send-email-roy.qing.li@gmail.com>
From: roy.qing.li@gmail.com
Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 11:04:45 +0800
> +But if tx vlan tag hardware insertion is enabled, and a vlan-device is
> +created, the physical device which vlan device is on will be unable to
> +work, like:
> +
> + $ethtool -K eth0 tx-vlan-stag-hw-insert on
> + $ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.13/24 up
> +
> + $vconfig add eth0 4091
> + $ifconfig eth0.4091 10.1.1.13/24 up
> +eth0.4091 can work, but eth0 can not work, since eth0 sends the insane
> +packets out.
This is a bit of a joke.
If a configuration doesn't work properly, it should be disallowed
by the driver, rather than "documented".
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-04-04 13:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-04-04 3:04 [PATCH] Documentation: document the gianfar tx vlan offload issue roy.qing.li
2014-04-04 3:07 ` yzhu1
2014-04-04 7:07 ` Claudiu Manoil
2014-04-04 7:10 ` Claudiu Manoil
2014-04-04 7:39 ` Li RongQing
2014-04-04 13:56 ` David Miller [this message]
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