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: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:26:11 -0800
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jamal wrote:
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> On Fri, 2005-03-18 at 20:02, Chris Wright wrote:
> 
> 
>>I'd prefer that too.  What about the netlink_dev implementation itself?
>>Should it be marked obsolete?
>>
> 
> It should die - pieces of it have already been slowly disapearing.

Totally agree. Even for Ethertap it was easy to use Netlink sockets directly.

Max