Re: [PATCH] - 2.4.17 - if_arp.h - Add the Prism2 ARP type

[Stuffed Crust <pizza@shaftnet.org>]

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On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 09:06:55PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>    From: Stuffed Crust <pizza@shaftnet.org>
>    Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 00:01:05 -0500
> 
>    Hey, this one-line patch (I diffed it against 2.4.17-rc2) defines the
>    ARPHRD_IEEE80211_PRISM arp type.
> 
> Is the allocation of this number standardized somewhere?

Yes and no.  There are a handful of standard hardware ARP types defined
in RFC826, I believe.  [checks.]  No, I guess not.   But those are
definately standardized, probably by the IEEE or somesuch.

Meanwhile, the "Dummy types for non ARP hardware" list in if_arp.h seems
to be the authoratitive non-standard standard, as it starts at 256 and
seems to pretty much sequentially count up with the occasional large
gap.   

Linux's PF_SOCKET code uses this to identify the packet type
coming off the wire.

The ARPHRD_IEEE80211 type was defined in 2.4.6 by incrementing the
number by one and appending it to the end of the list.  I just
incremented the protocol number by one for the _PRISM type.

I have no idea if there was some master list somewhere; google didn't
seem to return any hits other than the linux source.

 - Pizza
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