Network stack changes

[Bryan Venteicher]

----- Original Message -----
> On 28.08.2013 20:30, Alexander V. Chernikov wrote:
> > Hello list!
> 
> Hello Alexander,
> 
> you sent quite a few things in the same email.  I'll try to respond
> as much as I can right now.  Later you should split it up to have
> more in-depth discussions on the individual parts.
> 
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> 
> > We already have some capabilities like VLANHWFILTER/VLANHWTAG, we can add
> > some more. We even have
> > per-driver hooks to program HW filtering.
> 
> We could.  Though for vlan it looks like it would be easier to remove the
> hardware vlan tag stripping and insertion.  It only adds complexity in all
> drivers for no gain.
> 

In the shorter term, can we remove the requirement for the parent
interface to support IFCAP_VLAN_HWTAGGING in order to do checksum
offloading on the VLAN interface (see vlan_capabilities())?