Addition to the vlan driver

[Jack Vogel]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:55 PM, Andrew Snow <andrew at modulus.org> wrote:
> Jack Vogel wrote:
>>
>> What I would like to do is add some code into the vlan_ioctl() routine
>> that will make a call
>> to the PARENT ioctl with SETVLAN type and an argument of the tag.
>>
>> By doing this both the em and igb drivers will be able to enable
>> hardware vlan filtering as
>> well, a feature we've never been able to use.
>
> I don't think vlan filtering is needed much, since I always use VLANs
> with switches that do the filtering at the port level.  But it still
> sounds like a good idea and I can't think why not.
>
> - Andrew
>

Sam is going to make some change that should suit my needs,
waiting to see his code to make my changes.

Jack