Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266067AbUF2VTg (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:19:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266071AbUF2VTg (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:19:36 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:55983 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266067AbUF2VTf (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Jun 2004 17:19:35 -0400 Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 14:19:15 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Ulrich Drepper Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: inconsistency between SIOCGIFCONF and SIOCGIFNAME Message-Id: <20040629141915.0268b741.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <40E1BE7D.7070806@redhat.com> References: <40E0EAC1.50101@redhat.com> <20040629012604.20c3ad8b.davem@redhat.com> <40E1BE7D.7070806@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.12 (GTK+ 1.2.10; sparc-unknown-linux-gnu) X-Face: "_;p5u5aPsO,_Vsx"^v-pEq09'CU4&Dc1$fQExov$62l60cgCc%FnIwD=.UF^a>?5'9Kn[;433QFVV9M..2eN.@4ZWPGbdi<=?[:T>y?SD(R*-3It"Vj:)"dP Mime-Version: 1.0 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 Content-Length: 536 Lines: 12 Ulrich, is there a major reason why you can't use RTNETLINK for your implementation? It behaves as you desire and gives you all of the link information you are after, in place of SIOCGIFCONF. I've done some more thinking and I really don't want to put this SIOCGIFCONF hack into the tree. - 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/