From: bert hubert <ahu@ds9a.nl>
To: Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] vlan ioctl propagation (rev.2)
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2004 12:14:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040808101421.GA22507@outpost.ds9a.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4115AE4C.2060608@aarnet.edu.au>
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 02:08:36PM +0930, Glen Turner wrote:
> while (virtual_interface(interface_name)) {
> virtual_to_real(interface_name, &interface_name);
> }
>
> This is the sort of nasty detail than operating systems are meant to
> abstract away from application code.
What I'm saying is that even userspace should not offer this abstraction.
Remember the past confusion over "ifconfig eth0:1 down" ?
But I'm more than prepared to follow DaveM's lead here, I just want to be
sure people think about this change.
Regards,
bert
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-08 10:14 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <20040806091305.4d405664@dell_ss3.pdx.osdl.net>
[not found] ` <20040806132145.675fd17d.davem@redhat.com>
2004-08-06 21:39 ` [PATCH 2.6] vlan ioctl propagation (rev.2) Stephen Hemminger
2004-08-07 21:10 ` bert hubert
2004-08-08 4:38 ` Glen Turner
2004-08-08 10:14 ` bert hubert [this message]
2004-08-09 15:53 ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-08-09 23:45 ` David S. Miller
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