-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Greear [mailto:greearb@candelatech.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:28 AM
To: Hen, Shmulik
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: VLAN patch for 2.4.21
You can just check the things in the net_device struct directly
I imagine. The calls I added are mainly to provide the info to
user-space.
That was my guess too. I'll figure out a way to do that
safely from kernel space.
What information do you need, and where do you need it?
In bonding, to better handle self generated packets, I'll need
to know what vlan ID's are on top of the bond device. So, I'll
need to listen to net dev registration notifications and sort
out which ones are for VLAN devices, and then see if they were
added on top of a bond device. Once I've got that, I'll need to
get the VID and store it in bonding, so both your additions
do exactly what I need. I also heard from the bridge developers
that they wanted similar support, so that's 2 birds...
Shmulik.
Hen, Shmulik wrote:
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-----Original Message-----
From: Ben Greear [mailto:greearb@candelatech.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2003 10:28 AM
To: Hen, Shmulik
Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: VLAN patch for 2.4.21
You can just check the things in the net_device struct directly
I imagine. The calls I added are mainly to provide the info to
user-space.
That was my guess too. I'll figure out a way to do that
safely from kernel space.
quoted
What information do you need, and where do you need it?
In bonding, to better handle self generated packets, I'll need
to know what vlan ID's are on top of the bond device. So, I'll
need to listen to net dev registration notifications and sort
out which ones are for VLAN devices, and then see if they were
added on top of a bond device. Once I've got that, I'll need to
get the VID and store it in bonding, so both your additions
do exactly what I need. I also heard from the bridge developers
that they wanted similar support, so that's 2 birds...
If it's a VLAN device, it will have priv_flags & 0x1 turned on,
see dev->priv_flags and if.h for possible values that priv_flags
can have:
/* Private (from user) interface flags (netdevice->priv_flags). */
#define IFF_802_1Q_VLAN 0x1 /* 802.1Q VLAN device. */
You can then get it's vlan-ID by looking for:
VLAN_DEV_INFO(dev)->vlan_id;
VLAN_DEV_INFO is defined in if_vlan.h as:
#define VLAN_DEV_INFO(x) ((struct vlan_dev_info *)(x->priv))
Shmulik.
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