Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: RFC: configuring net interfaces | From | Krzysztof Halasa <> | Date | 29 Mar 2001 13:29:32 +0200 |
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Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> writes:
> > 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)
Right. While I don't think ethernet-only interface is our ultimate goal, I'll look at it again to see if I can stole some idea there. -- Krzysztof Halasa Network Administrator - 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/
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