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    i2400m: linkage to the networking stack · ce6cde92
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    Implementation of the glue to the network stack so the WiMAX device
    shows up as an Ethernet device.
    
    Initially we shot for implementing a Pure IP device -- however, the
    world seems to turn around Ethernet devices. Main issues were with the
    ISC DHCP client and servers (as they don't understand types other than
    Ethernet and Token Ring).
    
    We proceeded to register with IANA the PureIP hw type, so that DHCP
    requests could declare such. We also created patches to the main ISC
    DHCP versions to support it. However, until all that permeates into
    deployments, there is going to be a long time.
    
    So we moved back to wrap Ethernet frames around the PureIP device. At
    the time being this has overhead; we need to reallocate with space for
    an Ethernet header. The reason is the device-to-host protocol
    coalesces many network packets into a single message, so we can't
    introduce Ethernet headers without overwriting valid data from other
    packets.
    
    Coming-soon versions of the firmware have this issue solved.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarInaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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