From: Krzysztof Halasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 18:40:04 +0200

> Do the semantics (I'm not talking about bugs) allow skb passed
> to dev->hard_header() (if defined) and then to dev->hard_start_xmit()
> to have less link layer header space than dev->hard_header_len?
> 
> I.e., is dev->hard_header_len only advisory?

It does seem weird that IP output won't pay attention to
dev->hard_header_len if the device does not provide a
dev->hard_header() method.  That is for sure.
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