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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFD] Network configuration data in sysfs
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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:35:58 +0300

> Is there something fundamental preventing us to have sysfs interface for
> network configuration?

Netlink already provides everything sysfs would potentially provide as
well as event tracking.

udev could just listen to a netlink socket and notice all changes to
addresses, routes, and device states.