Re: [PATCH] seastar - SeaStar Ethernet driver

[David Miller]

From: "Kevin Pedretti" <ktpedre@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 18:24:02 -0700

> 4. Device only supports IPv4? -> Yes, that's correct. No IPv6 support.
> The driver squashes everything but IPv4 in eth2ss().

Not just IPV6, what about other ethernet protocols?

What about ARP?  How does IPV4 work if you only accept ETH_P_IP?  You
need to accept at least ETH_P_ARP for things to work.

> 2. May want to use alloc_netdev() -> Didn't do this. Would there be a
> substantial advantage to doing this?

I think you're going to end up having to make this change.
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