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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [NET]: Device mtu/txqlen/ifmap via rtnetlink.
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2004 23:33:30 -0700
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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004 02:29:03 -0400
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> wrote:

> Why are new calls to deprecated hook ->set_config() being added?

Because it's the only way to %100 implement ifconfig
using netlink.