From: "Rémi Denis-Courmont" <remi@remlab.net>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Network device autoconfiguration
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:19:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bd8484914903fecf95d193d4ac9f9295@chewa.net> (raw)
Hello,
The kernel will automatically configure the loopback device, especially,
add 127.0.0.1 and ::1 address. This is detected with the IFF_LOOPBACK flag.
In *some* cases, it would be statically determine the Phonet address of a
device, but I wonder how to pass the information from the net_device driver
to the stack... Would a device ioctl() be appropriate? Or is the whole
thing just a bad idea? Or something else?
--
Rémi Denis-Courmont
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