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From: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: af_packet.c bug?
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 22:17:38 +0200
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* Ben Greear <4248642E.40304@candelatech.com> 2005-03-28 12:08
> >Seems so, please adopt the size of spkt_device in struct sockaddr_pkt
> 
> you mean adapt maybe?

Of course, stupid typo. ;->

> I was also wondering why we couldn't hold a reference to the net-device
> instead of just it's ifindex when dealing with a bound raw socket.

Saving a netdevice handle in the packet socket is not a problem but
doing the same for the packet socket address seems to be non trivial.