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From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>, davem@davemloft.net, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove unused netlink NL_EMULATE_DEV code
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:02:53 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050319010253.GU5389@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <423B6DAE.9050803@qualcomm.com>

* Max Krasnyansky (maxk@qualcomm.com) wrote:
> Why don't you kill Ethertap completely while you're at it. Ethertap needs 
> "Netlink device emulation"
> stuff. And this whole thing has been marked OBSOLETE for more than two 
> years now.
> Most projects seem to have switched to TUN/TAP long time ago.

I'd prefer that too.  What about the netlink_dev implementation itself?
Should it be marked obsolete?

thanks,
-chris

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-19  1:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-18 23:36 [PATCH] remove unused netlink NL_EMULATE_DEV code Chris Wright
2005-03-19  0:09 ` Max Krasnyansky
2005-03-19  1:02   ` Chris Wright [this message]
2005-03-19  1:48     ` jamal
2005-03-21 18:26       ` Max Krasnyansky
2005-03-23  3:22         ` David S. Miller
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-02-12  3:55 Chris Wright

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