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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:58:13 +0200

> It would be nice if someone would finally come up with a generic
> interface based on netlink (RTM_NEWLINK) instead of adding yet
> another couple of homegrown interfaces.

I absolutely agree, using these ioctls and sysfs/procfs crap
is totally insane given that we have a core mechanism for
network configuration.