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Subject: Re: [PATCH] New ARPHRD types
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@rth.ninka.net>
To: Solomon Peachy <solomon@linux-wlan.com>
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On Mon, 2002-10-21 at 15:19, Solomon Peachy wrote:
> IEEE 802.11 has a variable "hardware" header length, 24 bytes for most
> frames but 30 bytes for others.  This poses a problem if you want to
> expose a native 802.11 netdev interface to the OS, as  
> netdev->hardhdr_len et.al. aren't variable.
> 
> But wait, isn't there already ARPHRD_IEEE80211? Yes, but unfortunately,

If ARPHRD_IEEE80211 assumes 24 bytes, and like you say it shouldn't,
fix that bug instead.  Don't add new ARP header types just to put
a bandaid on another bug.


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