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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] [Fwd: State of the Union: Wireless]
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From: David Lang <dlang@digitalinsight.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:16:17 -0800 (PST)

> character devices are far easier to script. this really sounds like the 
> type of configuration stuff that sysfs was designed for. can we avoid yet 
> another configuration tool that's required?

netlink is being recommended exactly because it can result
in only needing one tool for everything