cvs commit: src/sys/net if_vlan.c

[Sam Leffler]

> <<On Mon, 7 Jul 2003 16:45:11 -0700 (PDT), wpaul at FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul)
> said:
>
>> 1) Change vlan_input() to apply EVL_VLANOFTAG() to all incoming tags
>>    (in both hardware and non-hardware tagging cases) and change the
>>    vlan_ioctl() function to only accept vlan tags from 0 to 4095
>>    and return EINVAL if the caller tries to set any of the other
>>    bits. (Prevent user from shooting self in foot.)
>
> I believe that this is the correct choice.  (It's probably a result of
> my stupidity that the vlan driver didn't do this already.)
>
> At some point we should do something sensible with the other bits,
> too.  In some applications it might be useful to allow the user to
> configure the .1p priority bits, outside of a VLAN context.  (We
> should be able to at least decode frames that arrive with .1p
> encapsulation but .1Q tag 0.)
>

I need/want these bits for the Atheros driver which has multi-q h/w support 
for QOS.  I haven't had the time to look at a general solution for dealing 
with this within the network stack.

	Sam