netdev - Re: Creating an Ethernet subtype setting

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Message-ID: <20090408210033.GB13160@xi.wantstofly.org>
Date:	Wed, 8 Apr 2009 23:00:33 +0200
From:	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>
To:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Creating an Ethernet subtype setting

On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 01:41:58PM +0100, Marcel Holtmann wrote:

> so we have more and more subsystem that expose themselves as Ethernet
> networking devices and it really becomes hard to identify them in an
> easy way. For example WiFi has been an Ethernet device since a long time
> now and distinguishing between Ethernet and WiFi is not that hard since
> we have the good old WEXT ioctls to identify WiFi devices. However with
> WiMAX, Bluetooth, GSM/CDMA modems and even Ethernet bridge devices,

Also:
- VLAN interfaces
- TAP interfaces
- ETH_P_TEB
- (DSA interfaces)
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