From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Joerg Roedel <joro-lkml@zlug.org>
Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/03] net/bridge: add support for EtherIP devices
Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 07:40:09 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060925074009.781a2228@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060925082445.GB23028@zlug.org>
On Mon, 25 Sep 2006 10:24:45 +0200
Joerg Roedel <joro-lkml@zlug.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 09:01:12PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>
> > If the device looks like a duck (Ethernet), then why does it need
> > a separate ARP type. There are other tools that might work without
> > modification if it just fully pretended to be an ether device.
>
> This solves the problem of getting a list of all EtherIP devices. If
> they use ARPHRD_ETHER and use an ioctl in the SIOCDEVPRIVATE space is
> not a save way (not even if the ioctl uses ethip0, this device could be
> owned by another driver if EtherIP is not present).
> On the other hand, a new ARP type opens a lot of new problems. A lot of
> userspace tools and libraries must be changed. So this solutions is not
> perfect.
>
> Cheers,
> Joerg
To get a list of all EtherIP devices, just maintain a linked list
in the private device information. Use list macros, it isn't hard.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-09-25 14:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-09-23 12:07 [PATCH 00/03][RESUBMIT] net: EtherIP tunnel driver Joerg Roedel
2006-09-23 12:13 ` Jan-Benedict Glaw
2006-09-23 12:27 ` Joerg Roedel
2006-09-23 12:38 ` jamal
2006-09-23 13:27 ` Joerg Roedel
2006-09-25 1:07 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-09-25 8:32 ` Joerg Roedel
2006-09-25 20:49 ` Brian Haley
2006-09-23 23:35 ` David Miller
2006-09-25 8:18 ` Joerg Roedel
2006-09-25 10:22 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-25 11:57 ` Joerg Roedel
2006-09-25 12:16 ` Andi Kleen
2006-09-25 12:35 ` Joerg Roedel
2006-09-23 12:13 ` [PATCH 01/03] net: EtherIP driver, header and MAINTAINERS changes Joerg Roedel
2006-09-23 12:16 ` [PATCH 02/03] net/bridge: add support for EtherIP devices Joerg Roedel
2006-09-24 4:01 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-09-25 8:24 ` Joerg Roedel
2006-09-25 14:40 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-09-25 14:54 ` Joerg Roedel
2006-09-23 12:20 ` [PATCH 03/03][IPROUTE2] EtherIP tunnel and device support for iproute2 Joerg Roedel
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