From 1b1e63d54d7697c1fd156dcf365e74c7836d4d37 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Brown
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 22:14:05 +0100
Subject: [netdevice] Add the concept of an "Ethernet-compatible" MAC address

The iBFT is Ethernet-centric in providing only six bytes for a MAC
address.  This is most probably an indirect consequence of a similar
design flaw in the Windows NDIS stack.  (The WinOF IPoIB stack
performs all sorts of contortions in order to pretend to the NDIS
layer that it is dealing with six-byte MAC addresses.)

There is no sensible way in which to extend the iBFT without breaking
compatibility with programs that expect to parse it.  Add the notion
of an "Ethernet-compatible" MAC address to our link layer abstraction,
so that link layers can provide their own workarounds for this
limitation.
---
 src/net/80211/net80211.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

(limited to 'src/net/80211')

diff --git a/src/net/80211/net80211.c b/src/net/80211/net80211.c
index 1fc983a01..c3d9fc61b 100644
--- a/src/net/80211/net80211.c
+++ b/src/net/80211/net80211.c
@@ -586,6 +586,7 @@ static struct ll_protocol net80211_ll_protocol __ll_protocol = {
 	.init_addr = eth_init_addr,
 	.ntoa = eth_ntoa,
 	.mc_hash = eth_mc_hash,
+	.eth_addr = eth_eth_addr,
 	.ll_proto = htons ( ARPHRD_ETHER ),	/* "encapsulated Ethernet" */
 	.hw_addr_len = ETH_ALEN,
 	.ll_addr_len = ETH_ALEN,
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