From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Max Krasnyansky <maxk@qualcomm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove unused netlink NL_EMULATE_DEV code
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 16:09:18 -0800
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To: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
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Hi Chris,

Why don't you kill Ethertap completely while you're at it. Ethertap needs "Netlink device emulation"
stuff. And this whole thing has been marked OBSOLETE for more than two years now.
Most projects seem to have switched to TUN/TAP long time ago.

Max