On Fri, 2007-08-24 at 01:04 -0400, Sebastien Roy wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > I would *really*, *really* like to see a way in *Nemo* for hardware
> > drivers to indicate that a given driver is not capable of handling full
> > size VLAN frames.
> >
> > I.e. it should be possible to write a native Nemo driver that doesn't
> > support full VLAN frames. (Or convert a GLDv2 driver to a Nemo
> > driver...)
> >
> > This fasttrack addresses legacy drivers, but still requires them to be
> > updated to get access to VLANs, without addressing the problem as it
> > stands for native Nemo drivers.
> >
> > Presumably clearview will need the ability to manage this for native
> > Nemo drivers as well (since it will itself emulate a Nemo driver). Can
> > the project team elaborate on this a bit more?
>
> That was already ARC'ed as part of PSARC 2006/499 (see
> MAC_CAPAB_LIMITED_VLAN as proposed in that case.)
Ah, OK. Well that would do the trick, I guess. :-)
-- Garrett
>
> -Seb
