On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, David S. Miller wrote: > > In the usual place: > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davem/TIGON3/tg3-0.92.patch.gz > > Three changes of note: > > [FEATURE] Yay, real HW acceleration hooks in the 802.1q VLAN layer. > Tigon3 takes advantage of it. > [BUG FIX] Let tg3_read_partno fail, some boards do not provide the > information and it isn't critical to the operation of the > driver. > [BUG FIX] Minor bug in ETHTOOL_GREGS length handling. > [CLEANUP] Use netif_carrier_{ok,on,off}() to keep track of link state. > > If people with real VLANs can try to get the HW acceleration stuff > working, I'd really appreciate it. Especially the person who (GASP) > wanted us to put the tasteless NICE stuff into our driver. :-) > Heh, I've never looked at the NICE-code.. I just found it working OK for me :) Anyway, I'm going to test this code after a while so I can be sure it _should_ work (I have only one production system where I can test this so I can't use very buggy drivers in it :) > Adding support to the Acenic driver should be pretty easy and I'll > try to do that before catching some sleep. Jeff could also probably > cook up something quick for the e1000. > That would be nice, a common way for hw-vlans is a good thing. Intel has also their own (kludgy?) way of doing hw-vlans in the current driver? - Pasi Kärkkäinen ^ . . Linux / - \ Choice.of.the .Next.Generation. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
