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Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 15:38:45 -0800 (PST)
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] [RFC] increase MAX_ADDR_LEN
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So how are apps able to specify such larger hw addresses to configure
a driver if IFHWADDRLEN is still 6?

I'm not going to increase MAX_ADDR_LEN if there is no user ABI capable
of configuring such larger addresses properly.
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