From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: carl h <heyen2000@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How does vlan driver pass vlan info to the h/w ethernet driver
Date: Mon, 1 May 2017 16:37:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170501143703.GA1285@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABM+yxkiOpOs5b5MM6MD4woz5R2-4_gf=t=8THXb3p=wuwTtXg@mail.gmail.com>
> > By what mechanism does the vlan driver (8021q.ko) tell the Ethernet
> > hardware about a vlan?
Why would the Ethernet hardware need to know?
An Ethernet Switch might need to know. If so, then switchdev would be
used, include/net/switchdev.h
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-05-01 14:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-28 13:46 How does vlan driver pass vlan info to the h/w ethernet driver carl h
2017-05-01 14:20 ` carl h
2017-05-01 14:37 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2017-05-01 14:52 ` carl h
2017-05-01 14:57 ` David Miller
2017-05-01 18:26 ` carl h
2017-05-01 19:29 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-05-01 19:35 ` carl h
2017-05-01 15:02 ` Andrew Lunn
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