From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams@intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] HW VLAN filtering control
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 14:06:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46AA5E4F.4090005@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1185569723.28574.8.camel@strongmad>
Mitch Williams wrote:
> This patchset adds the capability to disable hardware VLAN filtering at
> runtime via the existing vconfig utility. It's useful for debugging
> purposes.
>
> The first patch modifies the VLAN subsystem to define the flag, and to
> support passing the flag on to the base driver.
>
> The second patch modifies e1000 to support the flag. Since it's only
> one function, other drivers can be easily modified to support this
> functionality.
>
> vconfig is used without modification to enable or disable filtering:
> # vconfig [vlan-interface] 2 1
> will disable filtering, and
> # vconfig [vlan-interface] 2 0
> will enable filtering.
This looks fine to me.
Ben
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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-27 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-27 20:55 [PATCH 0/2] HW VLAN filtering control Mitch Williams
2007-07-27 21:06 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2007-07-27 21:23 ` Mitch Williams
2007-07-30 12:43 ` Patrick McHardy
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