Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission

[Miquel van Smoorenburg]

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Alan Cox  <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>At this point you have to ask 'why is vlan4001 an interface'. Would it not
>be cleaner to add the vlan id to the entries in the list of addresses per
>interface ?

Not all the world is IP - what if you want to bridge between 
an ATM ELAN (LANE) and a VLAN? Note that different ATM ELANs also
show up as seperate interfaces.

Mike.
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