From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: network interface cards native vlans support in linux kernel? Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 10:25:57 -0700 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <3F0EF325.9060708@candelatech.com> References: <3F0EEFDD.8050300@candelatech.com> <20030711171858.GI2210@gtf.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Andrius Kasparavicius , netdev@oss.sgi.com Return-path: To: Jeff Garzik In-Reply-To: <20030711171858.GI2210@gtf.org> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jeff Garzik wrote: > On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 10:11:57AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote: > >>eepro100 does not seem to be updated in the kernel anymore, though if you >>go figure >>out how to install Becker's drivers, he may have it working with vlans >>by now. > > > I won't say for sure, but I'm fairly certain he does. Most of his > drivers got a "slightly larger than normal MTU" pass-over a while ago. > > I objected to the eepro100 patch, because all it did was change one > magic number to another, in the configuration data. I had absolutely no > basis for evaluation other than "I hope it works", so it was rejected. > > If someone wants to look at his eepro100 and merge in new changes (vlan > or otherwise), that'd be great. His tulip MTU (aka vlan) changes also > want pulling into mainline kernel, since his changes are _much_ better > than the tulip vlan patch floating around. It is beyond me to do this merge at this time, but if someone else can do it that would be great. I can also do some testing of the tulip merge, at least..as I have loads of 4-port nics lying around. Ben > > Jeff > > -- Ben Greear President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear