Sounds good to me, this should work nicely. Chris > -----Original Message----- > From: David S. Miller [mailto:davem@redhat.com] > Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2002 2:57 PM > > This is exactly the kind of thing I wanted people to discover > and discuss. Thanks for bringing this up. > > It would be quite simple to hook back into your driver for this > purpose, proposed API: > > /* For netdev->features */ > #define NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER 1024 > > /* For NETIF_F_VLAN_RX_FILTER devices */ > void (*vlan_rx_new_vid)(struct net_device *dev, > unsigned short vid); > > We call dev->vlan_rx_kill_vid() in all cases because it has to > deal with interlocking, as described in an earlier email. > > But if NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER is set, when new VLAN devices are > registered that go through your card, you will get a > dev->vlan_rx_new_vid() call. > > I do not think you would need any more informatin than the > VID itself. If this is wrong, tell me now :-) > - : 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
