Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [RFC] increase MAX_ADDR_LEN | From | Roland Dreier <> | Date | 11 Nov 2002 16:01:43 -0800 |
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>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
>>>>> On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:38, David S. Miller wrote:
Dave> So how are apps able to specify such larger hw addresses to Dave> configure a driver if IFHWADDRLEN is still 6?
Dave> I'm not going to increase MAX_ADDR_LEN if there is no user Dave> ABI capable of configuring such larger addresses properly.
Alan> The kernel just ignores it. We support multiple devices with Alan> larger address lengths. Its mostly a legacy constant
What drivers in the kernel are there with address length more than MAX_ADDR_LEN? What do they put dev->addr_len and dev->dev_addr?
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