From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Eran Mann Subject: Re: VLAN patches Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2002 09:32:46 +0200 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3DA1389E.6070006@mrv.com> References: <20021006.194654.35505461.davem@redhat.com> <3DA1010A.8020202@candelatech.com> <3DA13332.4080109@mrv.com> <20021007.000627.50595749.davem@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: greearb@candelatech.com, hadi@cyberus.ca, Bjorn.Andersson@ebc.ericsson.se, netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: "David S. Miller" Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David S. Miller wrote: > From: Eran Mann > > Regarding the 0 VID it is indeed used for priority-only frames. > Shouldn't it be supported by alowing the user to configure a priority > map for the ethernet device (rather than creating another user-visible > device? > > I don't have any opinion about this, besides the fact that if > the device based interface we have now can do whatever the user > wants we should not add a new configuration mechanism just to provide > some alias that effectively accomplishes the same task. > I was thinking more in the line of: # vconfig set_egress_map eth0 XX YY etc... (once CONFIG_VLAN_8021Q=y|m ofcourse) -- Eran Mann Senior Software Engineer MRV International Tel: 972-4-9936297 Fax: 972-4-9890430 www.mrv.com