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Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2002 21:11:38 +0100
From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
Cc: ak@muc.de, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       davem@redhat.com
Subject: Re: rtnetlink replacement for SIOCSIFHWADDR
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>   Or, we could add a new RTM_SETLINK message that userspace can send
>   to the kernel to modify an interface's properties.

Defining a RTM_SETLINK would seem to be cleanest to me.

-Andi
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