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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>,
	Dowan Kim <dowan@broadcom.com>,
	arend@broadcom.com, rvossen@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next] if_ether.h: Add #define ETH_P_LARQ for HPNA/LARQ
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:53:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1292298831.26970.263.camel@Joe-Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101214014920.GA2453@broadcom.com>

On Mon, 2010-12-13 at 17:49 -0800, Henry Ptasinski wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 04:47:47PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > LARQ seems to be used by Broadcom's staging driver.
> > Might as well add a #define for it to the normal location.
> > diff --git a/include/linux/if_ether.h b/include/linux/if_ether.h
[]
> > +#define ETH_P_LARQ	0x886c		/* HPNA / Broadcom
> That should be ETH_P_BRCM (or ETH_P_EPIGRAM).  HPNA/ILCP used a range of
> subtypes for LARQ and other HPNA protocols.  The brcmfmac driver uses a
> different subypte for encapsulating some event signals between the device and
> the host, but doesn't implement any of the HPNA protocols.

Another choice might be ETH_P_LINK_CTL



  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-14  3:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-14  0:47 [RFC PATCH net-next] if_ether.h: Add #define ETH_P_LARQ for HPNA/LARQ Joe Perches
2010-12-14  1:49 ` Henry Ptasinski
2010-12-14  3:53   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2010-12-15 21:22     ` Henry Ptasinski
2011-01-05  2:07     ` [PATCH] include/linux/if_ether.h: Add #define ETH_P_LINK_CTL for HPNA and wlan local tunnel Henry Ptasinski
2011-01-06 19:10       ` David Miller

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