From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 19:00:19 +0100
> This looks like a rather expensive operation for the unlikely case > that packets will be received by a packet socket. IMO it should only > be reconstructed if actually needed, by af_packet itself. Completely agreed. We should not do this by default when %99 of the networking stack simply does not care about this. > As we discussed some time back storing the VLAN tag in the CB on > TX clashes with other users of the CB like qdiscs, so we need a > new field in the skb for this anyway. Someone will have to find a way to remove some other fields in sk_buff before I'm going to allow more space to be eaten up by this completely fringe case feature. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
