Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Sun, 27 May 2007 20:44:04 +0200
> Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> 
>>Fix sky2 disabling VLAN completely when the first vid is unregistered.
>>
>>For some reason the VLAN code insists on the driver providing a
>>vlan_rx_kill_vid function even if only NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_RX and not
>>NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER is set, so this patch keeps an empty
>>function. This seems to be a bug though, vlan_rx_add_vid is only
>>required with NETIF_F_HW_VLAN_FILTER. Ben?
>>
> 
> 
> Reading other drivers, it looks like a better patch would be to
> handle mode change in both set and kill.


The VLAN code tracks registered VIDs and will always call
vlan_rx_register(NULL) when the last VID is unregistered,
so this is not necessary.

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