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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hadi@cyberus.ca
Cc: shemminger@osdl.org, tgraf@suug.ch, yoshfuji@wide.ad.jp,
	eric.lemoine@gmail.com, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: iproute2 patch introducing mtu/txqlen/weight via rtnetlink
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 14:14:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040910141400.1cdf2e18.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1094822205.1125.113.camel@jzny.localdomain>

On 10 Sep 2004 09:16:46 -0400
jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca> wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 05:40, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > Unless there is some compelling reason, I think that keeping the old ioctl
> > interface for a least a year until the kernel changes become more ubiquitous.
> 
> I think that iproute2 should first attempt to use netlink and on failure
> switch to ioctls.

This is what I would recommend too.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2004-09-10 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-09 16:48 iproute2 patch introducing mtu/txqlen/weight via rtnetlink Thomas Graf
2004-09-09 17:33 ` David S. Miller
2004-09-09 17:54   ` Thomas Graf
2004-09-10  1:33     ` YOSHIFUJI Hideaki / 吉藤英明
2004-09-10  9:29       ` Thomas Graf
2004-09-10  9:40         ` Stephen Hemminger
2004-09-10 13:16           ` jamal
2004-09-10 16:55             ` Thomas Graf
2004-09-10 21:14             ` David S. Miller [this message]

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