Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission

[Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:21:11PM -0500, jamal wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Ben Greear wrote:
> > > Question: How do devices with hardware vlan support fit into your model ?
> > I don't know of any, and I'm not sure how they would be supported.
> 
> erm, this is a MUST. You MUST factor the hardware VLANs and be totaly
> 802.1q compliant. Also of interest is 802.1P and D. We must have full
> compliance, not some toy emulation.

        Read what I wrote about the issue to Alan.
        Ben's code has no problems with receiving VLANs with network
        cards which have "hardware support" for VLANs.

        But this is far away from device name hashes.
        (Which aren't in data reception or sending fastpaths, anyway.)

> cheers,
> jamal

/Matti Aarnio