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

[David Ford]

ifconfig is "so yesterday" as it is, ip is incredibly more capable.  I 
would gently push ifconfig into the dungeons of time.

-d

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.