netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: addrconf: drop ieee802154 specific things

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Date:	Mon, 14 Dec 2015 16:11:04 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alex.aring@...il.com
Cc:	linux-wpan@...r.kernel.org, linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...gutronix.de,
	kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] ipv6: addrconf: drop ieee802154 specific
 things

From: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 20:55:22 +0100

> This patch removes ARPHRD_IEEE802154 from addrconf handling. In the
> earlier days of 802.15.4 6LoWPAN, the interface type was ARPHRD_IEEE802154
> which introduced several issues, because 802.15.4 interfaces used the
> same type.
> 
> Since commit 965e613d299c ("ieee802154: 6lowpan: fix ARPHRD to
> ARPHRD_6LOWPAN") we use ARPHRD_6LOWPAN for 6LoWPAN interfaces. This
> patch will remove ARPHRD_IEEE802154 which is currently deadcode, because
> ARPHRD_IEEE802154 doesn't reach the minimum 1280 MTU of IPv6.
> 
> Also we use 6LoWPAN EUI64 specific defines instead using link-layer
> constanst from 802.15.4 link-layer header.
> 
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Cc: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
> Cc: James Morris <jmorris@...ei.org>
> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org>
> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>

Applied, thank you.
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