Re: of ethernet names (was [PATCH] Futex Asynchronous

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Mon, 10 Jun 2002 17:44:15 -0400

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Actually, networking is moving in the direction described --
yes, as Linus points out, we will need the magic ioctl stuff for back
compat.
But the main way to communicate with a net device is netlink, already a
chardev. ifconfig actually should be updated to use netlink.

Jeff

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