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From: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose@wanadoo.es>
Subject: Re: Why is ifenslave.c in the kernel tree?
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 20:21:49 +0100
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Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Just looking over the 2.6.3 diffs I see that ifenslave is actively
> maintained in Documenation/ of the kernel tree.  Isn't that a _really_
> odd place for a userland tool?  We have a policy of not having any
> userland tools not used for building in the kernel tree, and especially
> none of the distributors will pick it up from there.

The best place could be net-tools package.

But it looks like net-tools is sloppy, last change was done around Apr-2001 !!

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