From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dwmw2@infradead.org
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iproute2 patch]: Add 'ip tuntap' facility for managing tun/tap devices
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 13:43:31 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090527.134331.149161719.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1243442972.18507.32.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 17:49:32 +0100
> On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 09:38 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>> Almost all of iproute2 is based on netlink, I don't want to add non netlink
>> interfaces.
>
> So you want to add a new interface to the kernel which duplicates the
> one we've had for years, then make userspace which will only work with
> newer kernels?
I agree, Stephen just put in the ioctl() or whatever based support
for TUN devices. We've done stuff like this before in iproute2
so your arguments against this are hogwash.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-27 20:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 10:32 tun: add tun_flags, owner, group attributes in sysfs David Woodhouse
2009-05-04 10:36 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-05-05 22:18 ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-04 10:42 ` [iproute2 patch]: Add 'ip tuntap' facility for managing tun/tap devices David Woodhouse
2009-05-04 14:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-05-04 14:49 ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-27 16:32 ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-27 16:38 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-05-27 16:49 ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-27 17:06 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-05-27 20:44 ` David Miller
2009-05-27 20:43 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-05-28 4:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-05-28 8:12 ` David Woodhouse
2009-06-13 8:55 ` David Woodhouse
2009-07-20 23:44 ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-04 14:47 ` tun: add tun_flags, owner, group attributes in sysfs Stephen Hemminger
2009-05-04 14:58 ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-09 20:27 ` David Miller
2009-05-09 22:27 ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-09 22:55 ` David Woodhouse
2009-05-09 22:56 ` David Miller
2009-05-10 5:54 ` David Miller
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