netdev - Re: [RFC 1/2] bridge: avoid ptype

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Date:	Sat, 03 Mar 2007 16:38:45 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	davem@...emloft.net (David Miller)
Cc:	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, bridge@...ux-foundation.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC 1/2] bridge: avoid ptype_all packet handling

David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
> 
> I'm tempted to say I must be missing something here, since I can't see
> how this could possible work at all.  The string passed in should
> be interpreted as the ifindex value, and thus trigger a -ENODEV
> return from AF_PACKET's bind() implementation.

This is using packet_bind_spkt which uses a name instead of ifindex.

As you may recall, I've made a patch to convert it to use the new
(actually it's not-so-new anymore) AF_PACKET interface.

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