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From: Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFD] Network configuration data in sysfs
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 03:54:03 +0400
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24.10.2011 16:46, Kay Sievers wrote:
> Kirill, what exactly is the use case? And why what does udev support
> mean in that context?
> 
> I doubt that "not having /sbin/ip installed" should be a reason to add
> and expose complex interfaces in /sys, while we already have a
> perfectly working native way to do it.

Adding NETLINK_ROUTE in udev is a way to perform some actions in case
of network events without polling. Now there are only a few specific
daemons (NM, connman etc) that are listen to the netlink socket and
setup the network his own way.

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