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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
Subject: Re: RFC: on [ab]use of skb->cb by VLAN code
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 09:56:39 -0700
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> Do we really need an 'unsigned int' for mac_len?  Maybe we could use
> a 16-bit counter here, and then use the other 16 bits for the VLAN bits?

Not knowing exactly if/how it interacts with that specific field I will 
point-out that IPoIB in OFED 1.2 just took their MTU to 65520.  While that 
doesn't break the bitbank it does get rather close.

rick jones