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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de>,
	torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: of ethernet names (was [PATCH] Futex Asynchronous
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:02:40 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D053010.9060409@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206091130490.13751-100000@home.transmeta.com> <8QbwdDPmw-B@khms.westfalen.de> <3D051DAF.6020107@mandrakesoft.com> <200206110852.57442.bhards@bigpond.net.au>

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





  reply	other threads:[~2002-06-10 23:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-06-09 18:22 of ethernet names (was [PATCH] Futex Asynchronous Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2002-06-09 18:33 ` Linus Torvalds
2002-06-10 20:53   ` Kai Henningsen
2002-06-10 21:44     ` Jeff Garzik
2002-06-10 22:52       ` Brad Hards
2002-06-10 23:02         ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2002-06-10 23:46       ` David Ford
     [not found] <0C01A29FBAE24448A792F5C68F5EA47D29DD32@nasdaq.ms.ensim.com>
2002-06-10 23:20 ` Paul Menage
2002-06-10 23:32   ` Brad Hards
2002-06-10 23:36     ` Randy.Dunlap
2002-06-11  0:11       ` Brad Hards
2002-06-11  2:25     ` Andi Kleen
2002-06-11  2:34       ` Brad Hards

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