| Submitter | Wei Shuai |
|---|---|
| Date | Jan. 20, 2013, 1:16 a.m. |
| Message ID | <1358644608-2118-1-git-send-email-cpuwolf@gmail.com> |
| Download | mbox | patch |
| Permalink | /patch/213895/ |
| State | Superseded |
| Delegated to: | David Miller |
| Headers | show |
Comments
When any patch is discarded, the whole series is tossed. Therefore you must resubmit the entire series, not just one part of it. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Patch
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c index 3d4bf01..f34b2eb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c @@ -1448,6 +1448,10 @@ usbnet_probe (struct usb_interface *udev, const struct usb_device_id *prod) if ((dev->driver_info->flags & FLAG_WWAN) != 0) strcpy(net->name, "wwan%d"); + /* devices that cannot do ARP */ + if ((dev->driver_info->flags & FLAG_NOARP) != 0) + net->flags |= IFF_NOARP; + /* maybe the remote can't receive an Ethernet MTU */ if (net->mtu > (dev->hard_mtu - net->hard_header_len)) net->mtu = dev->hard_mtu - net->hard_header_len; diff --git a/include/linux/usb/usbnet.h b/include/linux/usb/usbnet.h index bd45eb7..5de7a22 100644 --- a/include/linux/usb/usbnet.h +++ b/include/linux/usb/usbnet.h @@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ struct driver_info { #define FLAG_LINK_INTR 0x0800 /* updates link (carrier) status */ #define FLAG_POINTTOPOINT 0x1000 /* possibly use "usb%d" names */ +#define FLAG_NOARP 0x2000 /* device can't do ARP */ /* * Indicates to usbnet, that USB driver accumulates multiple IP packets.
we do have some USB net devices, which cannot do ARP. so we can introduce a new flag FLAG_NOARP, then client drivers can easily handle these kind of devices Signed-off-by: Wei Shuai <cpuwolf@gmail.com> --- drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 4 ++++ include/linux/usb/usbnet.h | 1 + 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)