From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iproute2 patch]: Add 'ip tuntap' facility for managing tun/tap devices
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 09:38:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090527093815.4ddf99de@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1243441938.18507.30.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
On Wed, 27 May 2009 17:32:17 +0100
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 15:49 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 07:38 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > > I would rather provide a netlink for managing TUNTAP interfaces
> >
> > I'm not sure that makes a lot of sense. We'd be adding a new, duplicate
> > user API solely for the benefit of iproute2; it's not as if we'd ever be
> > able to get rid of the existing interface that everyone uses.
> >
> > Unless you want to ditch the /dev/net/tun chardev completely and do
> > _everything_ over netlink, maybe... but that doesn't seem particularly
> > worthwhile either.
> >
> > > and reorganize under ip link??
> >
> > It seemed more intuitive to model it after 'ip tunnel'. How would you
> > want it to look?
>
> Ping?
>
Almost all of iproute2 is based on netlink, I don't want to add non netlink
interfaces.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-27 16:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 10:32 tun: add tun_flags, owner, group attributes in sysfs David Woodhouse
2009-05-04 10:36 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-05-05 22:18 ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-04 10:42 ` [iproute2 patch]: Add 'ip tuntap' facility for managing tun/tap devices David Woodhouse
2009-05-04 14:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-05-04 14:49 ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-27 16:32 ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-27 16:38 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-05-27 16:49 ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-27 17:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-05-27 20:44 ` David Miller
2009-05-27 20:43 ` David Miller
2009-05-28 4:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-05-28 8:12 ` David Woodhouse
2009-06-13 8:55 ` David Woodhouse
2009-07-20 23:44 ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-04 14:47 ` tun: add tun_flags, owner, group attributes in sysfs Stephen Hemminger
2009-05-04 14:58 ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-09 20:27 ` David Miller
2009-05-09 22:27 ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-09 22:55 ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-09 22:56 ` David Miller
2009-05-10 5:54 ` David Miller
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