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From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Feb 2007 08:47:06 -0500

> patches welcome :)

And it's a non-trivial task.  The semantics and way in which
link level encapsulation is done is not straight-forward
on some devices.

So the hooks either have to be too generic, or too specific
to be useful.