Message ID | 1358784032-3897-1-git-send-email-cpuwolf@gmail.com |
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State | Accepted, archived |
Delegated to: | David Miller |
Headers | show |
From: Wei Shuai <cpuwolf@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:00:31 +0800 > 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 this kind of devices > > Signed-off-by: Wei Shuai <cpuwolf@gmail.com> Applied. -- 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
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 this 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(-)