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

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Message-Id: <20130116.161837.1786136462165772470.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 16 Jan 2013 16:18:37 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bjorn@...k.no
Cc:	dcbw@...hat.com, cpuwolf@...il.com, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	alexey.orishko@...ricsson.com, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] CDC_NCM adding support IFF_NOARP for infineon modem
 platform

From: Bjørn Mork <bjorn@...k.no>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:34:07 +0100

> The main problem is that these devices don't support ethernet.  They
> support IP (v4 and _maybe_ v6) with an ethernet header.  Many of them
> will do ARP (and IPv6 ND) as well to complete the picture, but some of
> them don't and that's what these drivers try to deal with.

Ok, in that case setting IFF_NOARP is in fact the right thing to do.
Thanks for describing the situation.

Someone please resubmit the patch to do that and I'll apply it.
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