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RE: VLAN patch for 2.4.21

To: "Ben Greear" <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: RE: VLAN patch for 2.4.21
From: "Hen, Shmulik" <shmulik.hen@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 09:22:53 +0300
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Thread-topic: VLAN patch for 2.4.21
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ben Greear [mailto:greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 3:27 AM
> To: 'netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject: VLAN patch for 2.4.21
> 
> 
> Here is a patch that adds a few new IOCTL options (not new 
> IOCTLs per se) for the 802.1Q VLANs.
> One ioctl allows one to get the VID for a device by
> the interface name.  A second gets the name of the underlying 
> device for the VLAN device.  Tested on x86 and PPC.
> 
> Comments welcome!
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 

Oh, this is great. You just saved me the work I was going to do
for fixing VLAN stuff over bonding :)
Any idea how to export those in a way that would enable bonding
and alike to include them without getting dependant on 8021q module
being loaded ? (I'm guessing inline function in a .h file, but any
other solution is welcome (coed sample ?).


-- 
| Shmulik Hen   Advanced Network Services  |
| Israel Design Center, Jerusalem          |
| LAN Access Division, Platform Networking |
| Intel Communications Group, Intel corp.  |



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