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SubjectRe: expected behavior of PF_PACKET on NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX device?
David Miller wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:23:37 -0700
>
>
>> The code in AF_PACKET should fix the skb before passing to user
>> space so that there is no difference between accel and non-accel
>> hardware. Internal choices shouldn't leak to user space. Ditto,
>> the receive checksum offload should be fixed up as well.
>>
>
> The hardware has stripped the VLAN header completely and has not
> provided it to us at all.
>
Do the NICs not save the QoS bits in the VLAN header anywhere that we could
use to reconstitute the header?

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com


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