Re: expected behavior of PF_PACKET on NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX device?

[Ben Greear]

David Miller wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 18:23:37 -0700
>
>   
> > The code in AF_PACKET should fix the skb before passing to user
> > space so that there is no difference between accel and non-accel
> > hardware.  Internal choices shouldn't leak to user space.  Ditto,
> > the receive checksum offload should be fixed up as well.
> >     
>
> The hardware has stripped the VLAN header completely and has not
> provided it to us at all.
>   
Do the NICs not save the QoS bits in the VLAN header anywhere that we could
use to reconstitute the header?

Thanks,
Ben

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Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com


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