On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:38, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> 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.
The kernel just ignores it. We support multiple devices with larger
address lengths. Its mostly a legacy constant
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