>>>>> "Alan" == Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
Alan> 1. Increase MAX_ADDR_LEN 2. Add some new address setting
Alan> ioctls, and ensure the old ones keep the old address length
Alan> limit. That is needed because the old caller wont have
Alan> allocated enough address space for a 20 byte address return.
Thanks to YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明, I had a look at rtnetlink. It
seems like we would get the necessary address setting functionality if
I implemented the following:
1. Add an RTM_SETLINK message type that handles at least the
IFLA_ADDRESS attribute. This would replace SIOCSIFHWADDR for
interfaces with long hardware addresses.
2. Add code to handle receiving RTM_NEWNEIGH and RTM_DELNEIGH
messages from user space. This would replace SIOCSARP and
SIOCDARP for interfaces with long hardware addresses.
Dave, Alan, if I wrote a patch to do this would you accept it? (And
following that increase MAX_ADDR_LEN?)
(By the way the original patch I posted added code to the
SIOCSIFHWADDR/SIOCGIFHWADDR handler to prevent a long hardware address
from overrunning the ifr_data member that user space passed in)
Thanks,
Roland
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