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From: Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de>
To: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: dlang@digitalinsight.com, kaber@trash.net, marcel@holtmann.org,
	mbuesch@freenet.de, jgarzik@pobox.com,
	bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] [Fwd: State of the Union: Wireless]
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2006 19:24:26 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601091924.26575.netdev@axxeo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060106.141836.41371212.davem@davemloft.net>

David S. Miller wrote:
> 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

Yes, iproute2 rocks!

I recently discovered that it can do "xfrm" stuff and was amazed to
see that the developer(s) had a big clue about what we like to
see (and what is human readable), if we type "ip xfrm state" 
and "ip xfrm policy" as opposed to "setkey -D" and "setkey -PD".

So I can only hope that netlink and iproute will be chosen as a way
to represent it to the user, just because of the clueful developers of
iproute2.


Regards

Ingo Oeser

  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-09 18:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1136541243.4037.18.camel@localhost>
2006-01-06 11:00 ` [Bcm43xx-dev] [Fwd: State of the Union: Wireless] Michael Buesch
2006-01-06 11:38   ` Marcel Holtmann
2006-01-06 11:45     ` Michael Buesch
2006-01-06 12:10       ` [Bcm43xx-dev] " Marcel Holtmann
2006-01-06 12:46         ` Patrick McHardy
2006-01-06 18:23           ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-01-06 22:16           ` David Lang
2006-01-06 22:18             ` David S. Miller
2006-01-09 18:24               ` Ingo Oeser [this message]
2006-01-06 22:22             ` Patrick McHardy
2006-01-12 14:20           ` Harald Welte
2006-01-06 16:12       ` Feyd
2006-01-06 16:25         ` Johannes Berg
2006-01-06 17:02   ` Ben Greear
     [not found] <5rXDU-5s4-7@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <5rXDU-5s4-5@gated-at.bofh.it>
2006-01-06 22:57   ` Bodo Eggert

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