From: David Ford <david+cert@blue-labs.org>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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 19:46:23 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D053A4F.7010801@blue-labs.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0206091130490.13751-100000@home.transmeta.com> <8QbwdDPmw-B@khms.westfalen.de> <3D051DAF.6020107@mandrakesoft.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-06-10 23:46 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
2002-06-10 23:46 ` David Ford [this message]
[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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