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List:       linux-vlan
Subject:    Re: [VLAN] are patches still needed?
From:       Ben Greear <greearb () candelatech ! com>
Date:       2002-01-28 18:41:02
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I would love if someone would push the fixes to LKML or
the maintainers.  However, since I'm not very good at
driver writing yet, and I usually don't know why setting
some bit of black magic makes the driver work, I am hesitant
to send the patches myself.

If any of you have patches and know why they work, please
post them to LKML and the driver maintainer if possible!

Thanks,
Ben

Patrick Schaaf wrote:

>>I see that more recent
>>2.4 kernels have the vlan support as standard, but I don't know if
>>other patches are still needed (e.g. to increase the frame size (which
>>certainly used to be needed on eepro100 cards (using the eepro100
>>driver)).  Are those patches still needed or have the network card
>>drivers mostly been fixed by now?
>>
> 
> As far as I know, no drivers in the stock kernel have already been
> fixed in this regard, so the patches are still neccessary. For the
> normal eepro100 driver in 2.4.18-pre4, I just checked, and found
> this to be true.
> 
> Worse, I'm not even aware of anybody pushing for these patches to
> be included - Ben, any activity on this front? The situation seems
> a bit ridiculous, given the minimalistic nature of the patches...
> 
> best regards
>   Patrick
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