netdev - Re: netdevice notifier and device private data

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Date:   Fri, 08 Jun 2018 15:37:44 -0400
From:   Michael Richardson <mcr@...delman.ca>
To:     Alexander Aring <aring@...atatu.com>
cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: netdevice notifier and device private data


Alexander Aring <aring@...atatu.com> wrote:
    Alex> I already see code outside who changed tun netdevice to the
    Alex> ARPHRD_6LOWPAN type and I suppose they running into this
    Alex> issue.  (Btw: I don't know why somebody wants to changed that
    Alex> type to ARPHRD_6LOWPAN on tun).

so that they can have the kernel do 6lowpan processing, emitting 6lowPAN
packets into userspace to be transfered into a radio via some proprietary
interface (including, for instance SLIP over USB cable to Contiki or OpenWSN stack, 
set up to act as radio only)

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