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Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 06:30:16 +0100 From: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com> To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org> Cc: Jukka Rissanen <jukka.rissanen@...ux.intel.com>, "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: Question about IPv6 neighbor discovery and 6lowpan On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 10:29:06AM +0700, Marcel Holtmann wrote: > Hi Jukka, > > >>> I am investigating RFC 6775 (Neighbor Discovery Optimization for IPv6 > >>> over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPANs)) > >>> http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6775 > >>> > >>> The RFC suggests some changes to neighbor discovery procedure for the > >>> 6LoWPAN networks. I was looking net/ipv6/ndisc.c and it seems that > >>> ARPHRD type (from type field in net_device struct) is the only way to > >>> detect and change the discovery procedure in the ndisc.c code. Am I > >>> right with this assumption here? > >>> > >> I think you are right, there was some patches on linux-zigbee-devel who > >> use exact the same idea to check the ARPHRD type. > > > > Ok. The reason I was interested in about this is that I proposed new > > ARPHRD_RAWIP earlier that I could use in BT LE 6lowpan code. Now I think > > that type might be too generic and perhaps I should have ARPHRD_6LOWPAN > > or even ARPHRD_BT_6LOWPAN. > > if it can be shared between 802.15.4 and Bluetooth, then I would propose to use ARPHRD_6LOWPAN and also convert the 802.15.4 stack to use that one. > Yea, that would be great. :-) - Alex -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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