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Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 16:53:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Ivan Passos <lists@cyclades.com>
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Subject: Re: RFC: configuring net interfaces
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On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> 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)

Then maybe it's really a better idea, after all. ;)

Krzysztof, please let us know what you think.

Regards,
Ivan

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