Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262079AbUF3UDK (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:03:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262109AbUF3UCU (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:02:20 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:44205 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262079AbUF3UAI (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 Jun 2004 16:00:08 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2004 12:59:27 -0700 From: "David S. Miller" To: Ulrich Drepper Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: inconsistency between SIOCGIFCONF and SIOCGIFNAME Message-Id: <20040630125927.20395598.davem@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <40E27103.8040304@redhat.com> References: <40E0EAC1.50101@redhat.com> <20040629012604.20c3ad8b.davem@redhat.com> <40E1BE7D.7070806@redhat.com> <20040629141915.0268b741.davem@redhat.com> <40E24573.5030403@redhat.com> <20040629221341.52824096.davem@redhat.com> <40E27103.8040304@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: 708 Lines: 18 On Wed, 30 Jun 2004 00:51:31 -0700 Ulrich Drepper wrote: > David S. Miller wrote: > > > This is especially unnecessary since rtnetlink does exactly what you > > want already, so we don't need to add a new interface nor change the > > semantics of an old one. > > I do have code using netlink in cvs now. We'll see whether people complain. Let me know, if you can't make it work I'm more than willing to reconsider the SIOCGIFCONF change. - 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/