Re: in kernel 2.6.x, tun/tap nic supports vlan packets

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On Wed, 2014-04-23 at 15:48 +0800, zhuyj wrote:
> On 04/23/2014 01:53 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
[...]
> > For what it's worth, I would recommend against applying this.  I don't
> > think even Red Hat has backported the VLAN changes, and they have been
> > quite aggressive about backporting features to RHEL 6.
> If we do not merge these patches, maybe RHEL 6 can not make tap driver 
> support vlan well.

RHEL 6 isn't based on 2.6.32.y, they do all their own backporting.

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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