netdev - Network device autoconfiguration

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Date:	Mon, 31 Aug 2009 15:19:54 +0200
From:	Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi@...lab.net>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Network device autoconfiguration

   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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