netdev - IPv6 over Firewire

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Date:	Fri, 21 Dec 2012 18:03:21 +0100
From:	Stephan Gatzka <stephan.gatzka@...il.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: IPv6 over Firewire

Hi!

I'm currently implementing IPv6 over firewire.

To make the address mapping to the firewire link layer RFC3146 mandates 
to use neighbor discovery with a certain format of the source/target 
link-layer address option.

While it is not too complicated to build that up, I'm wondering how I 
can reserve enough memory in the corresponding skb.

One possibility is to introduce some option padding in 
ndisc_addr_option_pad() but I think that's somehow weird.

The second option I see is to set needed_tailroom in struct netdevice 
for firewire net devices. That's the way I would go for.

Because I'm not really familiar with the whole network infrastructure in 
Linux, a confirmation for the way to go would be nice.

Regards,

Stephan
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