From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] increase MAX_ADDR_LEN
Date: 11 Nov 2002 15:58:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52n0ofmzek.fsf@topspin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20021111.153845.69968013.davem@redhat.com>
>>>>> "David" == David S Miller <davem@redhat.com> writes:
David> So how are apps able to specify such larger hw addresses to
David> configure a driver if IFHWADDRLEN is still 6?
In the InfiniBand case, the device's hardware address comes from a
combination of the port GID (which is set by the InfiniBand subnet
manager through an IB-specific mechanism) and the queue pair number
that the driver gets when it initializes. There definitely still are
problems to solve, such as specifying static ARP entries.
David> I'm not going to increase MAX_ADDR_LEN if there is no user
David> ABI capable of configuring such larger addresses properly.
What would you consider a palatable ABI? (I'm happy to implement it)
Enlarging sa_data in struct sockaddr doesn't seem feasible. I guess
we could add a new socket ioctl() or extend SIOCGIFHWADDR/SIOCSIFHWADDR
somehow....
Thanks,
Roland <roland@topspin.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-11-11 23:52 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 [this message]
2002-11-12 0:18 ` Alan Cox
2002-11-12 0:01 ` Roland Dreier
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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