Re: Writing Vlan driver

2009-01-07 Thread Anupam Kapoor
Tekale Sharad-FHJN fhj...@motorola wrote: , | I'm looking for virtual lan driver for Marvell switch(88e6060). ` iirc, Lennert Buytenhek has already added an implementation of dsa into the kernel. for doing vlan/bridging stuff, i can think of 2 possibilities : - snoop 'brctl'

RE: Writing Vlan driver

2009-01-07 Thread Tekale Sharad-FHJN78
: Writing Vlan driver On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:51:22 +0800 Tekale Sharad-FHJN78 fhj...@motorola.com wrote: Erik Mouw wrote: No need to write that, support for IEEE 802.1Q VLAN has been in the kernel for ages. I need to write the vlan driver for Marvell chip(88e6060), fortunately it is supported

Re: Writing Vlan driver

2009-01-07 Thread Erik Mouw
On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:51:22 +0800 Tekale Sharad-FHJN78 fhj...@motorola.com wrote: Erik Mouw wrote: No need to write that, support for IEEE 802.1Q VLAN has been in the kernel for ages. I need to write the vlan driver for Marvell chip(88e6060), fortunately it is supported in 2.6.28 kernel,

Re: Writing Vlan driver

2009-01-07 Thread Peter Teoh
-FHJN78 Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Subject: Re: Writing Vlan driver On Wed, 7 Jan 2009 13:51:22 +0800 Tekale Sharad-FHJN78 fhj...@motorola.com wrote: Erik Mouw wrote: No need to write that, support for IEEE 802.1Q VLAN has been in the kernel for ages. I need to write the vlan driver

Writing Vlan driver

2009-01-06 Thread Tekale Sharad-FHJN78
Hi all, My task is to write a Vlan driver. But I'm new to Linux device drivers. Although I have written skull driver, but not yet confident on writing device drivers. Can any point me to some tutorial that helps to quick start on device drivers, also gives some

Re: Writing Vlan driver

2009-01-06 Thread Erik Mouw
On Tue, 6 Jan 2009 21:20:07 +0800 Tekale Sharad-FHJN78 fhj...@motorola.com wrote: Hi all, My task is to write a Vlan driver. But I'm new to Linux device drivers. No need to write that, support for IEEE 802.1Q VLAN has been in the kernel for ages. Although I have written

Re: Writing Vlan driver

2009-01-06 Thread Peter Teoh
comment on the paper and let us know if it is updated or not, or relevant to your project? http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/VideoLAN-HOWTO.pdf On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Tekale Sharad-FHJN78 fhj...@motorola.com wrote: Hi all, My task is to write a Vlan

RE: Writing Vlan driver

2009-01-06 Thread Tekale Sharad-FHJN78
To: Tekale Sharad-FHJN78 Cc: kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org Subject: Re: Writing Vlan driver comment on the paper and let us know if it is updated or not, or relevant to your project? http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/pdf/VideoLAN-H OWTO.pdf On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 9:20 PM, Tekale