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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash•net>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation•org>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger•kernel.org>,
	Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: sky2: Fix VLAN unregistration
Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 19:37:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <465F07C3.2090503@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070531101945.2b19faa7@freepuppy>

Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Sun, 27 May 2007 20:44:04 +0200
> Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash•net> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Fix sky2 disabling VLAN completely when the first vid is unregistered.
>>
>>For some reason the VLAN code insists on the driver providing a
>>vlan_rx_kill_vid function even if only NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX and not
>>NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER is set, so this patch keeps an empty
>>function. This seems to be a bug though, vlan_rx_add_vid is only
>>required with NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER. Ben?
>>
> 
> 
> Reading other drivers, it looks like a better patch would be to
> handle mode change in both set and kill.


The VLAN code tracks registered VIDs and will always call
vlan_rx_register(NULL) when the last VID is unregistered,
so this is not necessary.


  reply	other threads:[~2007-05-31 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-27 18:44 [SKY2]: Fix VLAN unregistration Patrick McHardy
2007-05-28 21:42 ` Ben Greear
2007-05-29 10:57   ` Patrick McHardy
2007-05-29 17:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-31 17:19 ` [PATCH]: sky2: " Stephen Hemminger
2007-05-31 17:37   ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2007-05-31 18:21     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-06-01 15:16       ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-01 16:16         ` Stephen Hemminger

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