On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Marcel Holtmann<marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Hmm. AX.25, AppleTalk, CAN, DecNet, most of other procotols sitting inside >> Linux kernel do use net_device structure, why should we differ? > > Don't know about CAN since I never looked deep enough into it. However > for the other, they do transport some sort of networking packets over > it. So my point is as long as I can use ifconfig of ip to set an address > on these interfaces and route them it makes sense to. Just to reuse > net_device because it is convenient for a control interface sounds wrong > to me. The IrDA stuff is one big example of this. > ieee802154 does actually transport networking packets. It is networking and not just another peer-to-peer interface, so I guess it shall be implemented as a network. Kind regards, Maxim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
