On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:10:06AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:

Jamal Hadi Salim wrote:

quoted

Agreed. I have some very strong opinions on this subject that i could
share with you if you want. For example, IMO, I think it would be a lot
reasonable to assume that a VLAN or VLANS are attributes of a netdevice
(just like IP addresses or MAC addresses are). 

As might be expected, I feel that VLANs are much more
useful as full-featured net devices.  I do not believe it is worth
decreasing functionality to try to 'clean up' the code.

In general, I agree that we shouldn't lose functionality.

I'm curious as to what particularly functionality you fear would be
lost if VLANs were not implemented the way they are now?

Thanks,

John
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John W. Linville
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