On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:39:02PM +0000, Sean Boudreau wrote:
> Is this PR 30665? The patch therein seems sufficient?
IMO, there is no need for Yet Another Ioctl. I have some more
complaints about that patch:
1 the patch is not applicable to -current, where we do not any
longer assume that the first ifaddr is the link-layer
address
2 the patch does not produce any routing messages to indicate
a change of lladdr
3 there is no way to restore the h/w default lladdr
4 the patch only treats the case where the lladdr length
is 6 octets
5 the patch resets every interface, always (IFF_UP -> !IFF_UP
-> IFF_UP)
6 the patch puts some address-family specific knowledge into
net/if.c, the arp_ifinit() calls
Dave
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