netdev - Re: [RFC] Enhance dev_ioctl to return <hwaddr>:<if_name::if

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Message-Id: <20100716.130445.149851386.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:04:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	chetanloke@...il.com
Cc:	shemminger@...tta.com, Chetan.Loke@...scout.com,
	bhutchings@...arflare.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Enhance dev_ioctl to return <hwaddr>:<if_name::if_index>
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From: Chetan Loke <chetanloke@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:02:23 -0400

> So all user space apps should replicate code when all of that can be
> replaced at the cost of a single for-loop in a non fast-path code
> within the kernel?

When there is a way to do something already, we don't add "yet another"
way to do it.  The kernel already suffers from API masterbation as-is.
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