Hi Erik, >I think you can make your life so much easier if you just used 2.8.28 and port your own changes to it. 2.6.21 is almost 2 >years old, that's considered "ancient" and "unsupported" in the Linux world. I wish I could do that, But our software got freezed and we only need to add extra support on top of it:( Hence I was looking for some support for Vlan on top of existing kernel... Regards, Sharad. -----Original Message----- From: Erik Mouw [mailto:mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 3:51 AM To: Tekale Sharad-FHJN78 Cc: kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Writing Vlan driver On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:51:22 +0800 "Tekale Sharad-FHJN78" <FHJN78@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Erik Mouw wrote: >> No need to write that, support for IEEE 802.1Q VLAN has been in the >> kernel for ages. > > I need to write the vlan driver for Marvell chip(88e6060), > fortunately it is supported in 2.6.28 kernel, but we are using > 2.6.21.5 kernel, hence my task is to port the vlan driver from 2.6.28 > to 2.6.21.5(my kernel version). > > Could any one guide me on same? I think you can make your life so much easier if you just used 2.8.28 and port your own changes to it. 2.6.21 is almost 2 years old, that's considered "ancient" and "unsupported" in the Linux world. Erik -- Erik Mouw -- mouw@xxxxxxxxxxxx GPG key fingerprint: D6AC 7F15 A26E C5C4 62E0 4A58 FCF9 551C 9B48 B68D -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
