From: "YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明" <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
To: vnuorval@morphine.tml.hut.fi
Cc: ajtuomin@morphine.tml.hut.fi, davem@redhat.com,
kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, netdev@oss.sgi.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pekkas@netcore.fi,
torvalds@transmeta.com, jagana@us.ibm.com,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] Mobile IPv6 for 2.5.43
Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:56:48 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021018.095648.21063407.yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0210180158330.18554-100000@morphine.tml.hut.fi>
In article <Pine.GSO.4.44.0210180158330.18554-100000@morphine.tml.hut.fi> (at Fri, 18 Oct 2002 02:52:48 +0300 (EEST)), Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@morphine.tml.hut.fi> says:
> > 2. Please put outer address to hardware address in dev.
>
> The reason I haven't done this is that MAX_ADDR_LEN is just 8. Does anyone
> have any objections against changing the value to 16?
>
> > Note: you need to modify SIOxxx ioctls too not to overrun!
>
> Sorry, I'm not that familiar with ioctls, I just copied the basic
> functionality from sit.c. Could you explain it a bit more thoroughly, so
> even I with my thick skull understand what the problem is?
in net/core/dev.c, there're codes to copy between dev->dev_{addr,broadcast}
and ifr_hwaddr.sa_data (points sockaddr{} sized 16).
Well, we have code for it. :-)
Please look at
<http://www2.linux-ipv6.org/cvsweb/usagi/kernel/linux24/net/core/dev.c.diff?r1=1.1.1.12&r2=1.4>
BTW, why don't we have SIOCGIFHWBROADCAST??
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Hideaki YOSHIFUJI @ USAGI Project <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-10-18 0:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-10-17 16:26 Antti Tuominen
2002-10-17 17:18 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2002-10-17 17:56 ` Mitsuru KANDA
2002-10-18 11:16 ` Antti Tuominen
2002-10-17 23:52 ` Ville Nuorvala
2002-10-18 0:56 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明 [this message]
2002-10-17 20:14 ` Pekka Savola
2002-10-18 7:39 ` Antti Tuominen
2002-10-17 22:51 ` Ville Nuorvala
2002-10-31 8:44 ` Noriaki Takamiya
2002-10-31 8:55 ` Pekka Savola
2002-10-31 9:08 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2002-10-31 10:41 ` Antti Tuominen
2002-11-01 3:27 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2002-10-31 10:44 ` Henrik Petander
2002-11-01 3:22 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2002-10-17 17:22 Krishna Kumar
2002-10-17 21:57 ` Ville Nuorvala
2002-10-17 17:46 Krishna Kumar
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