netdev.vger.kernel.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Stephan Gatzka <stephan.gatzka@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 6/6] ipv6: IPv6 over IEEE1394 (RFC3146) support.
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:37:32 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50F1914C.70605@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130112164741.1a0ab7bb@stein>


> Dito, please do not solve this with an EXPORT from drivers/firewire/net.c.
Again, I totally agree from the architectural point of view.

>
> Either a new driver callback is required, and the function pointer to this
> callback needs to be reachable indirectly via the skb pointer.

How I understand the whole ndisc code, ndisc just copes with struct 
net_devices. So to break the dependency to the firewire net driver an 
optional callback routine in struct net_device might be the easiest way.

> Or drivers/firewire/net.c needs to be aware that it just received an NDP
> packet, and then call a parser function in net/ipv6/ndisc.c which returns
> the data that drivers/firewire/net.c wants to know.

I think that is definitely to late. All cryptographic stuff (IPSEC) will 
be done and I don't think we want to recalculate that afterwards.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-12 16:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-12 14:21 [RFC PATCH 6/6] ipv6: IPv6 over IEEE1394 (RFC3146) support YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-01-12 14:40 ` Stephan Gatzka
2013-01-12 15:47 ` Stefan Richter
2013-01-12 16:37   ` Stephan Gatzka [this message]
2013-01-12 16:39   ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
2013-01-12 16:44     ` Stephan Gatzka
2013-01-13  3:57       ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=50F1914C.70605@gmail.com \
    --to=stephan.gatzka@gmail.com \
    --cc=linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net \
    --cc=netdev@vger.kernel.org \
    --cc=stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de \
    --cc=yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).