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From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Virtual ethernet device (tunnel)
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 08:49:52 -0400
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On Wed, 2007-02-05 at 14:34 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> Thats a lot better than using sysfs, but I think it would be
> preferrable to use rtnetlink instead of genetlink for network
> configuration.

or you can just hold rtnl while using genl.
I do agree it would be easier to just use rtnetlink ...

cheers,
jamal