Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754045AbaDWLmT (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:42:19 -0400 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:56673 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751725AbaDWLmO (ORCPT ); Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:42:14 -0400 Message-ID: <1398253309.7767.136.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Subject: Re: in kernel 2.6.x, tun/tap nic supports vlan packets From: Ben Hutchings To: zhuyj Cc: Willy Tarreau , "David S. Miller" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, joe@perches.com, julia.lawall@lip6.fr, dingtianhong@huawei.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jasowang@redhat.com, mst@redhat.com, "Yang, Zhangle (Eric)" , "Wu, Kuaikuai" , "Tao, Yue" Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:41:49 +0100 In-Reply-To: <53577036.2040307@gmail.com> References: <534F4C1E.1000006@gmail.com> <20140417050228.GC8243@1wt.eu> <1398189237.7767.77.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> <53577036.2040307@gmail.com> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg="pgp-sha512"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-22v6WCIoSPmTGYbBNNgO" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.8.5-2+b3 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 192.168.4.249 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --=-22v6WCIoSPmTGYbBNNgO Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 15:48 +0800, zhuyj wrote: > On 04/23/2014 01:53 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: [...] > > For what it's worth, I would recommend against applying this. I don't > > think even Red Hat has backported the VLAN changes, and they have been > > quite aggressive about backporting features to RHEL 6. > If we do not merge these patches, maybe RHEL 6 can not make tap driver= =20 > support vlan well. RHEL 6 isn't based on 2.6.32.y, they do all their own backporting. Ben. --=20 Ben Hutchings Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. - Leonard Brandwein --=-22v6WCIoSPmTGYbBNNgO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iQIVAwUAU1em/ee/yOyVhhEJAQpRtQ/5AYv96is6qtCzv/jbI9cRIVACT+ZWbV1O wLoDJvykX7oBcL9VhBPNdvqwspcfq/9ZtSW4N90g5zi2oNPHUL9GzJFoSthtAXTn EJKZkgte8fUWtowJBgyrLXE83XRuLTF39YIeGazQd8nx8U558Q/3pwJrg+35zjdV 8bFQXrBzQGLZFpRGAjvYcKMqLSVXLoSDG/VBbv4QNTT2lQ0y5EA34vBySJax9cEv akna6Ea72r1xL9Zyv5kqutLjkFUouSX2CwrkK7BauaR9wffzyYaB8oaees3CCsiv rRMsrNxzFfZB+f6uVyskH27pRji9eYoVcXRS+BnPUJS7QHv8cggMiZh7Xmo/sF4t 4eWBysYP6Ywmfhoop/eMYXiwrw6b+B2y2M83pjkABV252KpmGGB0mSt3yTXYt0OS YpvgXYYaIn7qm2MzeWtGdPSB1vKkJFjaf5WXQIxDnF0we2UcbZHb74EctYnS+Rc3 ZJe7KxugPxwNjPRikA+seT5c/VcD2YanDzJA/YKXmgcW6EO8i8au6w/tMZeupnpq Yay4In9NsA1zHPTRcKMG59aw2ypcZEw9h5Kn44xijt/okcJeBLywfc6YrBshUOrk ICFU3T7hQueJErK37HtbdZIwlaHmIbEr+eYWEWvqiVy5dh+Qda7CvOHRCc6zQKUj MAEBXOjj8WQ= =RAEV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-22v6WCIoSPmTGYbBNNgO-- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/