netdev - Re: [PATCH] CDC_NCM adding support IFF_NOARP for infineon modem platform

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Message-ID: <1358183953.1713.28.camel@dcbw.foobar.com>
Date:	Mon, 14 Jan 2013 11:19:13 -0600
From:	Dan Williams <dcbw@...hat.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	cpuwolf@...il.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	alexey.orishko@...ricsson.com, bjorn@...k.no,
	linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CDC_NCM adding support IFF_NOARP for infineon modem
 platform

On Sat, 2013-01-12 at 15:35 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Wei Shuai <cpuwolf@...il.com>
> Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 19:34:39 +0800
> 
> > Infineon(now Intel) HSPA Modem platform NCM cannot support ARP. so I
> > introduce a flag CDC_NCM_DRIVER_DATA_NOARP which is defined in
> > driver_info:data. so later on, if more such buggy devices are found,
> > they could use same flag to handle.
> 
> Is it no able to do ARP or, the more likely case, does broadcast
> not work at all?
> 
> If it's the latter, IFF_NOARP is just making over the real problem.
> 
> I'm not applying this, no hardware device should set IFF_NOARP.
> You probably really want IFF_POINTOPOINT or similar.

IFF_NOARP is already done for other WWAN devices (sierra_net, hso,
cdc-ether, cdc-phonet, lg-vl600, etc) so there is some precedent.  Some
drivers (phonet, hso) set *both* POINTTOPOINT and NOARP.  Is that
redundant, and should all WWAN drivers be moved to only POINTTOPOINT?

(aside: usbnet has FLAG_POINTTOPOINT, but that's nothing to do with
IFF_POINTTOPOINT, it only controls whether the interface is named usbX
or ethX.  Confusing.)

Dan

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