On Sun, 2008-05-04 at 20:56 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote: > Actually this is not as bad as it sounds. Since you're constructing > the hardware header anyway, it may turn out to be easier to tack on > the Ethernet header while you're at it. We actuall remove the ethernet header and rewrite it to a hardware header as the 802.11 spec pretty much mandates. > Please note that the hardware cache is not the same as the neighbour > cache. Just because you lose the hardware cache doesn't mean that > you'd lose the neighbour (ARP) cache. Ok. > However, this would mean that you'd no longer have an Ethernet device > which is both good and bad. Yeah. I don't think that'll go down well with userspace. johannes
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