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

[Jeff Garzik]

Brad Hards wrote:
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2002 07:44, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>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.
> 
> Is there any documentation on the netlink API, beyond UTSL(iproute)?
> Reference would be good, but a tutorial would be ideal.

I don't know of any...  Alexey/DaveM/Jamal are probably the best people 
to ask.

	Jeff