Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] Add basic VLAN support to bridges

From: Stephen Hemminger <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:02:18 -0800

On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:17:30 -0500
Jamal Hadi Salim <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On 12-12-13 02:04 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >
> > Maybe a better filtering architecture (at the bridge level) would
> > be a good project.
> >
> 
> Ok, please before you go off and re-invent the winter tire - take a look 
> at tc filtering which works well with any netdev and point out what the 
> issues are.
> 
> 
> cheers,
> jamal

Nah, no reinvention, people who want to do filtering and bridging
just use openvswitch instead.