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From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] increase MAX_ADDR_LEN
Date: 11 Nov 2002 16:01:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <52isz3mza0.fsf@topspin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1037060322.2887.76.camel@irongate.swansea.linux.org.uk>

>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

    >>>>> On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:38, David S. Miller wrote:

    Dave> So how are apps able to specify such larger hw addresses to
    Dave> configure a driver if IFHWADDRLEN is still 6?

    Dave> I'm not going to increase MAX_ADDR_LEN if there is no user
    Dave> ABI capable of configuring such larger addresses properly.

    Alan> The kernel just ignores it. We support multiple devices with
    Alan> larger address lengths. Its mostly a legacy constant

What drivers in the kernel are there with address length more than
MAX_ADDR_LEN?  What do they put dev->addr_len and dev->dev_addr?

Thanks,
  Roland  <roland@topspin.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-11 23:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-11 18:25 [PATCH] flush_cache_page while pte valid Hugh Dickins
2002-11-11 18:35 ` Andrew Morton
2002-11-11 23:19 ` David S. Miller
2002-11-11 23:34   ` [PATCH] [RFC] increase MAX_ADDR_LEN Roland Dreier
2002-11-11 23:38     ` David S. Miller
2002-11-11 23:58       ` Roland Dreier
2002-11-12  0:18       ` Alan Cox
2002-11-12  0:01         ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2002-11-12 14:23           ` Alan Cox
2002-11-12 14:20             ` Folkert van Heusden
2002-11-12 15:14             ` Roland Dreier
2002-11-12 16:00               ` Alan Cox
2002-11-12 15:50                 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2002-11-12 20:36                 ` Roland Dreier
2002-11-12 22:31                   ` David S. Miller
2002-11-12 22:39                     ` Roland Dreier
2002-12-04 18:31                     ` rtnetlink replacement for SIOCSIFHWADDR Roland Dreier
2002-12-04 20:11                       ` Andi Kleen
2002-12-31 23:11                         ` [PATCH] increase MAX_ADDR_LEN Roland Dreier
2003-01-06 15:52                           ` [PATCH] increase MAX_ADDR_LEN (resend) Roland Dreier
2003-01-06 23:29                             ` David S. Miller
2003-01-07  8:58                           ` [PATCH] increase MAX_ADDR_LEN David S. Miller
2002-11-12  6:53   ` [PATCH] flush_cache_page while pte valid Hugh Dickins
2002-11-12  6:53     ` David S. Miller
2002-11-12 14:49       ` Rik van Riel
2002-11-12 21:45         ` David S. Miller
2002-11-12 17:43       ` Hugh Dickins
2002-11-12 21:51         ` David S. Miller
2002-11-12 22:59           ` Hugh Dickins

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