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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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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