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Date:	Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:49:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	kirill@...temov.name
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru, jmorris@...ei.org,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, kaber@...sh.net, gregkh@...e.de,
	kay.sievers@...y.org, gladkov.alexey@...il.com
Subject: Re: [RFD] Network configuration data in sysfs

From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:35:58 +0300

> Is there something fundamental preventing us to have sysfs interface for
> network configuration?

Netlink already provides everything sysfs would potentially provide as
well as event tracking.

udev could just listen to a netlink socket and notice all changes to
addresses, routes, and device states.
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