netdev - Re: examples of setting ip address/netmask/etc.. on a device

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Message-ID: <adahcw0u5qp.fsf@cisco.com>
Date:	Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:08:46 -0800
From:	Roland Dreier <rdreier@...co.com>
To:	Kumar Gala <galak@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: examples of setting ip address/netmask/etc.. on a device

 > I was wondering if there were any examples of net devices that expect
 > to be told the ip information for their connection (things doing
 > forms of offload).  If so can someone point me at a driver that does
 > this.

I don't know much about the HW details but drivers/infiniband/hw/amso1100
does something like that.  drivers/infiniband is somewhat misnamed
these days but amso1100 is a driver for RDMA over ethernet hardware.
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