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From: Bastian Blank <bastian@waldi.eu.org>
To: Christian Borntraeger <linux-kernel@borntraeger.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	Frank Pavlic <pavlic@de.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Spatzier <tspat@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390 - mark IPv6 support for QETH as broken
Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 22:03:07 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040709200307.GC11138@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200407092150.22868.linux-kernel@borntraeger.net>

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On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 09:50:22PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> David S. Miller wrote:
> > Put it in the inet6device private area.

struct net_device defines a void pointer named ip6_ptr. This clearly
defines that as opaque data. There is no other ipv6 specific field.

A simple solution will be adding a pointer to a public struct with ipv6
specific things.

> > It's been a year, and you haven't put forth the effort to look
> > for solutions like that?
> 
> I think its sensible to add the driver authors to cc. Hopefully we can agree 
> on a nice solution.

I hope so.

Bastian

-- 
Only a fool fights in a burning house.
		-- Kank the Klingon, "Day of the Dove", stardate unknown

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  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-09 20:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-09 14:06 Bastian Blank
2004-07-09 14:09 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-07-09 18:46   ` Adrian Bunk
2004-07-09 19:03 ` Andrew Morton
2004-07-09 19:15   ` Christian Borntraeger
2004-07-09 20:01     ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-07-09 19:22   ` Bastian Blank
2004-07-09 19:30     ` David S. Miller
2004-07-09 19:47       ` Bastian Blank
2004-07-09 20:00         ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-07-09 20:04           ` Bastian Blank
2004-07-09 20:34             ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-07-09 20:01         ` David S. Miller
2004-07-09 19:50       ` Christian Borntraeger
2004-07-09 20:03         ` Bastian Blank [this message]
2004-07-09 19:59       ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-07-09 20:05         ` David S. Miller
2004-07-09 20:08           ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明

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