netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver

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Date:	Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:14:52 -0700
From:	Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
To:	Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
CC:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@...ox.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>,
	Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@...ibm.com>,
	Dmitry Mishin <dim@...nvz.org>,
	Linux Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver

Patrick McHardy wrote:

> It would be nice if someone would finally come up with a generic
> interface based on netlink (RTM_NEWLINK) instead of adding yet
> another couple of homegrown interfaces.

My preference is for ioctls, procfs, or similar that does not
require extra libraries.  Ethtool is an ioctl based approach,
so that could potentially be used, though I'm not sure if
that's the right place to put it...

Ben


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Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc  http://www.candelatech.com

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