From: Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no>
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2013 09:34:07 +0100

> The main problem is that these devices don't support ethernet.  They
> support IP (v4 and _maybe_ v6) with an ethernet header.  Many of them
> will do ARP (and IPv6 ND) as well to complete the picture, but some of
> them don't and that's what these drivers try to deal with.

Ok, in that case setting IFF_NOARP is in fact the right thing to do.
Thanks for describing the situation.

Someone please resubmit the patch to do that and I'll apply it.
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