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Date:	Mon, 09 Apr 2007 22:03:54 +0200
From:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, kaber@...sh.net,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, dim@...nvz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jgarzik@...ox.com, containers@...ts.osdl.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
	shemminger@...ux-foundation.org, greearb@...delatech.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver

On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 13:35 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> Nor have I seen a rigorous adherence to all new network configuration
> using netlink.  The wireless code doesn't even seem to really try.

You're talking about the wext stuff that was invented ten years ago.
cfg80211/nl80211 which I was talking about actually does use netlink
almost exclusively (and you can add virtual interfaces using netlink)
but we also provided some easy sysfs attributes.

johannes

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