netdev - Re: [iproute2 patch]: Add 'ip tuntap' facility for managing tun/tap devices

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Message-Id: <1241448559.6126.110.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
Date:	Mon, 04 May 2009 15:49:19 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iproute2 patch]: Add 'ip tuntap' facility for managing
 tun/tap devices

On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 07:38 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I would rather provide a netlink for managing TUNTAP interfaces

I'm not sure that makes a lot of sense. We'd be adding a new, duplicate
user API solely for the benefit of iproute2; it's not as if we'd ever be
able to get rid of the existing interface that everyone uses.

Unless you want to ditch the /dev/net/tun chardev completely and do
_everything_ over netlink, maybe... but that doesn't seem particularly
worthwhile either.

>  and reorganize under ip link??

It seemed more intuitive to model it after 'ip tunnel'. How would you
want it to look?

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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