From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: msa@moth.iki.fi
Cc: olaf@bigred.inka.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipv4 and ipv6 stacks for new link layers?
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:52:03 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070224.165203.41636677.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200702241645.l1OGj3GV023299@moth.iki.fi>
From: Markku Savela <msa@moth.iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:45:03 +0200
> I think that is worse than allow a new driver to provide a simple
> service function which maps IPv4/6 multicast address into link layer
> address, when asked.
The problem is that this mapping isn't so simple for several
link layer types.
I outlined in another email this problem, in that any interface
which would allow a driver-like-API for this would be either
overly general or so specific as to be useless.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-02-25 0:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-02-23 11:49 Markku Savela
2007-02-23 13:47 ` Neil Horman
2007-02-24 0:26 ` David Miller
2007-02-24 16:00 ` Olaf Titz
2007-02-24 16:45 ` Markku Savela
2007-02-25 0:52 ` David Miller [this message]
2007-02-25 10:27 ` Olaf Titz
2007-02-25 11:21 Al Boldi
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