Re: ETH_P_X25 type (was Re: [PATCH] cyclom2x driver update)

[Henner Eisen <eis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>>> "Arnaldo" == Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Arnaldo> cool, I was trying just to hack the X.25 packet layer to
    Arnaldo> make it work without that much changes, but seems like
    Arnaldo> we'll get a cleaner hack... ;)

Well, lets wait for comments from others, in particular I'd like to
know, what the ETH_P_CONTROL was originally intended for.

The other question is whether changes like this are appropriate at
the currrent (feature freeze) state of the kernel.

Another question to other network developers:

I think it would be nice to have reserved a dummy ETH_P_EXP in if_ether.h
and a dummy ARPHRD_EXP in if_arp.h that can be be safely used (without
risking to clash with future official extensions) by experimential
protocol/device_type implementations until they get an officially
assigned ID. Should I prepare a patch?

Henner