Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:12:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:12:17 -0500 Received: from panic.ohr.gatech.edu ([130.207.47.194]:7587 "HELO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:12:14 -0500 Message-ID: <3AC27DB3.C2E20FC5@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 19:11:31 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2-20mdksmp i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ivan Passos Cc: Linux Kernel List , Daniela Magri Subject: Re: RFC: configuring net interfaces In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Ivan Passos wrote: > Maybe it's a better idea to have just two ioctl's here (GET and SET), and > have "subioctl's" inside the structure passed to the HDLC layer (and > defined by the HDLC layer). This would allow changes in the HDLC layer > without having to change sockios.h (you'd still have to change HDLC's > code and definitions, but this would be more self-contained). Again, this > may be better, or maybe not. What do you think? That's essentially what's happening with ethtool (include/linux/ethtool.h in 2.4.3-pre8) -- Jeff Garzik | May you have warm words on a cold evening, Building 1024 | a full moon on a dark night, MandrakeSoft | and a smooth road all the way to your door. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/