Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [RFC] increase MAX_ADDR_LEN | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 12 Nov 2002 00:18:42 +0000 |
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On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:38, David S. Miller wrote: > > So how are apps able to specify such larger hw addresses to configure > a driver if IFHWADDRLEN is still 6? > > I'm not going to increase MAX_ADDR_LEN if there is no user ABI capable > of configuring such larger addresses properly.
The kernel just ignores it. We support multiple devices with larger address lengths. Its mostly a legacy constant
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