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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] net: add device groups
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 14:41:15 +0100
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On Mon, 2011-01-10 at 13:38 +0200, Vlad Dogaru wrote:
> This patchset implements network device grouping and simple manipulation
> of groups. Netlink has been update to provide group information and
> means of applying changes to members of a specific group via a single
> message.

Can you explain the purpose of this? I'm wondering if it would make
sense to automatically group all virtual interfaces belonging to a
single 802.11 device, for instance.

johannes