netdev - Re: Port attributes configuration

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Date:	Tue, 29 Jul 2014 10:53:15 -0700
From:	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>
To:	Marco Varlese <marco.varlese@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Port attributes configuration

On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 2:15 AM, Marco Varlese <marco.varlese@...il.com> wrote:
> I'm working on a new platform and the network interfaces will have
> quite few new options (roughly 50) to configure. What I definitely
> want to achieve is to use the common tools available on Linux to let
> users configure the port attributes from user-space without writing a
> brand new ad-hoc tool.
>

Netlink is definitely preferred unless you have a reason not to use it.
You don't give any details so I can't tell much.

You probably don't have to write a new tool from scratch, i.e. parsing
netlink attributes all by yourself, you probably can just patch existing
iproute2.
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