From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, chrisw@osdl.org, netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove unused netlink NL_EMULATE_DEV code
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:22:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050322192235.03627a5f.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <423F11C3.2020803@qualcomm.com>
On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:26:11 -0800
Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com> wrote:
> jamal wrote:
> > 1
> > On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 20:02, Chris Wright wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I'd prefer that too. What about the netlink_dev implementation itself?
> >>Should it be marked obsolete?
> >>
> >
> > It should die - pieces of it have already been slowly disapearing.
>
> Totally agree. Even for Ethertap it was easy to use Netlink sockets directly.
I've applied Chris's original patch, then killed ethertap and
netlink_dev from my tree.
It's very telling that CONFIG_ETHERTAP was still marked EXPERIMENTAL
:-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-23 3:22 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
2005-03-19 1:48 ` jamal
2005-03-21 18:26 ` Max Krasnyansky
2005-03-23 3:22 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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2005-02-12 3:55 Chris Wright
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