netdev - Re: [RFC:] struct net_device_ops: Add function pointer to fill device specific ndisc information

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Message-ID: <50FC6068.3020302@gmail.com>
Date:	Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:23:52 +0100
From:	Stephan Gatzka <stephan.gatzka@...il.com>
To:	YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
CC:	linux1394-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC:] struct net_device_ops: Add function pointer to fill device
 specific ndisc information

On 01/20/2013 07:47 PM, YOSHIFUJI Hideaki wrote:

> My current position is to change "mac address" to
>
> struct fwnet_hwaddr {
> 	u8	guid[8];
> 	u8	max_rec;
> 	u8	sspd;
> 	u8	fifo[6];
> };
>

That is something I'm not really convinced of. As Stefan Richter pointed 
out clearly, the fifo address might be different between IPv4 and IPv6 
communication.

Stephan
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