On Wed, 2006-01-18 at 16:48 -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
> You can use an interface such a netlink for device configuration.
> It can do better type checking, can be used by generic tools, and
> some day soon will be transferable over the wire so that one can
> perform remote configuration changes.
That looks doable, but to my eyes, the netlink interface looks both more
cumbersome and less reliable than ioctl. At least it apparently lets us
do arbitrarily peculiar things :-)
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