John W. Linville wrote:
I'm just not sure that cleverness is worth the headache, especially
since the most clever things usually only work by accident...
Or, work by solid, modular design and small tweaks!
Point taken. But stashing little hacks in the networking core for
specific virtual drivers isn't totally modular either. And even if
it were, "modular design" probably belongs on the list of "things
that can be taken too far", like "everything in userland", "never
use ioctl", and "microkernels are superior". :-)
To be honest, I'm not over-joyed to see bridging hooks included
in the VLAN code..but if that is what it takes to get bridging
and VLANs to play well and be flexible, I think it is a fair price.
It certainly wouldn't hurt to have someone take a holistic view of the
various L2 device interactions. Just documenting current functionality
on, say, the netdev wiki would be a good first step.
Thanks,
Ben
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Ben Greear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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