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From: Stephan Gatzka <stephan.gatzka@gmail.com>
To: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Cc: linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC:] struct net_device_ops: Add function pointer to fill device specific ndisc information
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 07:37:28 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50FCE228.3090801@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50FC3BB1.4070005@linux-ipv6.org>

> [ARP and NDISC]
> - both can be handled in more natural way.
> -- You will not need to mangle those packets when
>     sending/receiving.

This is also true if we introduce a function pointer. My last 
implementation does not mangle packets in the driver.

> -- You do not need to inspect ARP/NDISC packet.
>     By using netevent notification mechanism, you can
>     learn peer parameters.

That is worth to investigate. Will I get notifications when a ARP/NDISC 
will be send or only if the stack received ARP/NDISC packets? However, I 
can't see how this will help to get the firewire specific information 
into the ARP/NDISC packet. This has to be done either via the suggested 
function pointer or your extension of the mac address.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-21  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-20 17:52 [RFC:] struct net_device_ops: Add function pointer to fill device specific ndisc information Stephan Gatzka
2013-01-20 18:47 ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-01-20 21:23   ` Stephan Gatzka
2013-01-21  2:29     ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-01-21  6:25       ` Stephan Gatzka
2013-01-21  7:39         ` Stefan Richter
2013-01-21 11:50           ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-01-21 19:25           ` Stephan Gatzka
2013-01-21 19:57             ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-01-21 21:16               ` Stephan Gatzka
2013-01-27 14:43                 ` Stefan Richter
2013-01-27 17:21                   ` Stephan Gatzka
2013-01-27 18:20                     ` Stephan Gatzka
2013-01-27 18:25                       ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-01-27 19:28                     ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-01-27 23:26                       ` Stefan Richter
2013-01-21 11:50         ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-01-21  8:09     ` Stefan Richter
2013-01-21 12:04       ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-01-21 13:15         ` Stefan Richter
2013-01-21  6:37   ` Stephan Gatzka [this message]
2013-01-21 12:16     ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-01-20 21:22 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2013-01-21  6:17   ` Stephan Gatzka
2013-01-21  8:28     ` Stefan Richter
2013-01-21 12:32       ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-01-21 14:15         ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki

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