From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263337AbTDKJKm (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 05:10:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263654AbTDKJKl (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 05:10:41 -0400 Received: from [203.197.168.150] ([203.197.168.150]:37390 "HELO mailscanout256k.tataelxsi.co.in") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S263337AbTDKJJ5 (for ); Fri, 11 Apr 2003 05:09:57 -0400 Message-ID: <3E9689B6.40753C53@tataelxsi.co.in> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 14:54:07 +0530 From: "Prasanta Sadhukhan" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mike Phillips CC: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: setting LAA in token ring References: <3E94FAB6.49465DC2@tataelxsi.co.in> <20030410210222.GA28094@siasl.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mike Phillips wrote: > On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 10:31:42AM +0530 or sometime in the same epoch, Prasanta Sadhukhan scribbled: > > Hi, > > Our cardbus driver supports LAA but when > > we are giving this command 'ifconfig tr0 hw tr 4000DEADBEEF' but we are > > getting > > SIOCSIFHWADDR: Invalid argument > > > > Is there any prerequisites fot this command to be given? > > > > There is a requirement for certain bit in the MSB to be set, bit 6 of 7 > iirc. > > Also, there is an issue with ifconfig and TR. During the 2.3 dev kernels > we changed the IEEE type of TR from 6 to a value in the 800 range. This > was done when multicast support was added as we needed to split out TR > from the other 802 protocols. > > ifconfig and friends didn't realize this and barf because the return > type is wrong. I've tried submitting patches to net-tools for this > several times, but it wasn't fixed. It may be by now, but don't quote me > on it. But the LAA feature was working in RH 7.1 which is kernel 2.4.2-2 So why suddenly this feature is returning Invalid argument in 7.2 7.3 and 8.0. Does it mean SIOCSIFHWADDR is not supported in the kernel > > > Mike Phillips > Linux Token Ring Project > http://www.linuxtr.net > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | __ __ | Tata Elxsi Ltd | | / ,, /| |'-. | http://www.tataelxsi.com | | .\__/ || | | |===================================== | | _ / `._ \|_|_.-' | Prasanta Sadhukhan | | | / \__.`=._) (_ | mailto:prasanta_sadhukhan@yahoo.com | | |/ ._/ |"""""""""| | Bangalore | | |'. `\ | | | India | | ;"""/ / | | | | | ) /_/| |.-------.| | | | ' `-`' " " | | ----------------------------------------------------------------------