From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: chetanloke@gmail.com
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, Chetan.Loke@netscout.com,
bhutchings@solarflare.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Enhance dev_ioctl to return <hwaddr>:<if_name::if_index> mapping
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 13:04:45 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100716.130445.149851386.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinAiJJqhrro8Jlrb0WgHzDSCx_dtWXL5N9ZKUbd@mail.gmail.com>
From: Chetan Loke <chetanloke@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 16:02:23 -0400
> So all user space apps should replicate code when all of that can be
> replaced at the cost of a single for-loop in a non fast-path code
> within the kernel?
When there is a way to do something already, we don't add "yet another"
way to do it. The kernel already suffers from API masterbation as-is.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-07-16 20:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-16 13:18 [RFC] Enhance dev_ioctl to return <hwaddr>:<if_name::if_index> mapping Chetan Loke
2010-07-16 17:10 ` Ben Hutchings
2010-07-16 18:04 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-07-16 18:12 ` Loke, Chetan
2010-07-16 18:31 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-07-16 19:29 ` Chetan Loke
2010-07-16 19:33 ` David Miller
2010-07-16 19:35 ` Chetan Loke
2010-07-16 19:40 ` David Miller
2010-07-16 20:02 ` Chetan Loke
2010-07-16 20:04 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-07-16 20:15 ` Chetan Loke
2010-07-16 20:18 ` David Miller
2010-07-16 20:49 ` Loke, Chetan
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