From: "David S. Miller" <davem@rth.ninka.net>
To: Solomon Peachy <solomon@linux-wlan.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] New ARPHRD types
Date: 22 Oct 2002 16:55:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1035330936.16084.23.camel@rth.ninka.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021021221936.GA32390@linux-wlan.com>
On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 15:19, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> IEEE 802.11 has a variable "hardware" header length, 24 bytes for most
> frames but 30 bytes for others. This poses a problem if you want to
> expose a native 802.11 netdev interface to the OS, as
> netdev->hardhdr_len et.al. aren't variable.
>
> But wait, isn't there already ARPHRD_IEEE80211? Yes, but unfortunately,
If ARPHRD_IEEE80211 assumes 24 bytes, and like you say it shouldn't,
fix that bug instead. Don't add new ARP header types just to put
a bandaid on another bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-22 23:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-21 22:19 Solomon Peachy
2002-10-22 23:55 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2002-10-23 14:16 ` Solomon Peachy
2002-10-24 4:18 ` David S. Miller
2002-10-24 14:58 ` Solomon Peachy
2002-10-24 15:38 ` Alan Cox
2002-10-24 15:53 ` Solomon Peachy
2002-10-24 17:01 ` Alan Cox
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