linux-kernel - Re: ipv4 and ipv6 stacks for new link layers?

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Message-Id: <20070224.165203.41636677.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Sat, 24 Feb 2007 16:52:03 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	msa@...h.iki.fi
Cc:	olaf@...red.inka.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipv4 and ipv6 stacks for new link layers?

From: Markku Savela <msa@...h.iki.fi>
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 18:45:03 +0200

> I think that is worse than allow a new driver to provide a simple
> service function which maps IPv4/6 multicast address into link layer
> address, when asked.

The problem is that this mapping isn't so simple for several
link layer types.

I outlined in another email this problem, in that any interface
which would allow a driver-like-API for this would be either
overly general or so specific as to be useless.
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