MFC of ether_input() changes

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:20:26PM +0100, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone want to see these changes MFCed, or otherwise object to such 
> an MFC?
> The introduction of M_PROMISC did the following:
> 
>    * Drop frames immediately if the interface is not marked IFF_UP.
>    * Always trim off the frame checksum if present.
>    * Always use M_VLANTAG in preference to passing 802.1Q frames
>      to consumers.
>    * Use __func__ consistently for KASSERT().
>    * Use the M_PROMISC flag to detect situations where ether_input()
>      may reenter itself on the same call graph with the same mbuf which
>      was promiscuously received on behalf of subsystems such as
>      netgraph, carp, and vlan.
>    * 802.1P frames (that is, VLAN frames with an ID of 0) will now be
>      passed to layer 3 input paths.
>    * Deal with the special case for CARP in a sane way.
> 
> For end users the main change of interest will be the ability for 
> FreeBSD to receive 802.1p frames, even if it doesn't do anything with 
> the priority fields right now.
> 
> If I hear 'yeses' I will try to MFC this as time permits.

yes please!

luigi