Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:46:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:46:45 -0400 Received: from ip68-9-71-221.ri.ri.cox.net ([68.9.71.221]:17454 "EHLO mail.blue-labs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:46:45 -0400 Message-ID: <3D053A4F.7010801@blue-labs.org> Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 19:46:23 -0400 From: David Ford User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.0+) Gecko/20020501 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeff Garzik CC: Kai Henningsen , torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: of ethernet names (was [PATCH] Futex Asynchronous In-Reply-To: <8QbwdDPmw-B@khms.westfalen.de> <3D051DAF.6020107@mandrakesoft.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bmilter: Processing completed, Bmilter version 0.1.0 build 565; timestamp 2002-06-10 19:45:54, message serial number 5425 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ifconfig is "so yesterday" as it is, ip is incredibly more capable. I would gently push ifconfig into the dungeons of time. -d Jeff Garzik wrote: > Actually, networking is moving in the direction described -- > yes, as Linus points out, we will need the magic ioctl stuff for back > compat. > But the main way to communicate with a net device is netlink, already > a chardev. ifconfig actually should be updated to use netlink. - 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/