[clearview-discuss] 2007/527 Addendum for Clearview Vanity Naming and Nemo Unification

Kais Belgaied Kais.Belgaied at sun.com
Fri Sep 14 12:21:17 PDT 2007


>      ** MAC_CAPAB_NO_NATIVEVLAN
>
>         A MAC_CAPAB_NO_NATIVEVLAN MAC capability will be added to the
>         GLDv3 framework to indicate that a specific MAC cannot support
>         VLAN PPA access by itself.
>   

this sounds a little upside-down.
A driver has to advertise a negative capability, essentially saying 
"Hey, I can't handle this feature"
as opposed to the more intuitive approach: drivers that can handle 
native VLAN expose a capab (MAC_CAPAB_NATIVEVLAN),
and those who don't do not.
Any reason for this choice?

    Kais.



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