netdev - Re: [RFC:] struct net_device_ops: Add function pointer to fill device specific ndisc information

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Date:	Tue, 22 Jan 2013 04:57:43 +0900
From:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
To:	stephan.gatzka@...il.com
CC:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC:] struct net_device_ops: Add function pointer to fill device
 specific ndisc information

Stephan Gatzka wrote:
> 
>> Two net_device instances on one 1394 card would be awkward:  They would
>> have to share one instance of isochronous reception context (for reception
>> of asynchronous 1394 streams; those are used for broadcasts and
>> multicasts).  Such a sharing is surely possible, but if double net_device
>> instantiation can be avoided, then avoid it.
>>
>> Not to mention the user interface problem of having two netifs, one which
>> only supports IPv4 and another one which only supports IPv6.  So far I
>> never had IPv6 configured into a Linux kernel, but I suppose that folks
>> are used to be able to use eth0 etc. for both protocols.
> 
> Full ack. And that's the reason why I feel very uncomfortable with a Yoshifujis hardware address extensions by fifo_addr, spd, and max_rec.
> 
> This seems possible with a single netdevice for IPv4/6 only if we _always_ use the same fifo address for both IPv4 and IPv6. Do we all agree on that?

I do not understand what "that" and "this" mean here.
Do you want to have different FIFO on single net_device? If yes, for what?

--yoshfuji
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