svn commit: r317547 - head/sys/net

Gleb Smirnoff glebius at FreeBSD.org
Sat Apr 29 02:16:59 UTC 2017


On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 11:00:58AM +0000, Alexander Motin wrote:
A> Author: mav
A> Date: Fri Apr 28 11:00:58 2017
A> New Revision: 317547
A> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/317547
A> 
A> Log:
A>   Allow some control over enabled capabilities for if_vlan.
A>   
A>   It improves interoperability with if_bridge, which may need to disable
A>   some capabilities not supported by other members.  IMHO there is still
A>   open question about LRO capability, which may need to be disabled on
A>   physical interface.
A>   
A>   MFC after:	2 weeks
A>   Sponsored by:	iXsystems, Inc.

On quick glance this looks like the opposite to what was done in r281885.

As discussed back 2 years ago:

- There are no NICs that are able to have different set of capabilities
turned on on different VLANs, and unlikely such will appear.
- Capabilities should be switched on VLAN trunk.
- Allowing to switch capabilities on a VLAN with magical flip of properties
  of all the VLANs on the same trunk is an ugly design. This is something
  unexpected for a sysadmin. Better refuse that and make him toggle properties
  on the trunk explicitily.

-- 
Totus tuus, Glebius.


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