From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:16:24 -0400 Message-ID: <461B7208.9030409@pobox.com> References: <1176136628.8459.34.camel@johannes.berg> <461A70A5.8060607@trash.net> <20070409.114402.45491411.davem@davemloft.net> <461A9DF1.8080904@trash.net> <1176150557.8459.47.camel@johannes.berg> <461AD517.2000906@trash.net> <1176184028.8459.58.camel@johannes.berg> <461B4242.1040602@trash.net> <1176196734.8459.74.camel@johannes.berg> <461B5E42.2030900@trash.net> <1176200879.8459.77.camel@johannes.berg> <461B6B22.3090009@trash.net> <1176202930.8459.81.camel@johannes.berg> <461B7060.8000407@trash.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Johannes Berg , "Eric W. Biederman" , David Miller , akpm@linux-foundation.org, dim@openvz.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, containers@lists.osdl.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, shemminger@linux-foundation.org, greearb@candelatech.com To: Patrick McHardy Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:34720 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753729AbXDJLQx (ORCPT ); Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:16:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <461B7060.8000407@trash.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Patrick McHardy wrote: > Maybe not wireless, but bonding, briding, vlan, etun, possibly more. [if I understand you correctly] I agree. With ethtool, the idea is to have a single tool that supports multiple hardware platforms -- even to the point of introducing hardware-specific code into ethtool. While I agree with wireless-dev that wireless /needs/ a separate tool, for things like bridging and vlan it would certainly be nice to mitigate the tool count explosion. Jeff