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Re: iproute2 patch introducing mtu/txqlen/weight via rtnetlink

To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: iproute2 patch introducing mtu/txqlen/weight via rtnetlink
From: jamal <hadi@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 10 Sep 2004 09:16:46 -0400
Cc: Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx>, YOSHIFUJI "Hideaki / ?$B5HF#1QL@" <yoshfuji@xxxxxxxxxx>, davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, eric.lemoine@xxxxxxxxx, netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
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On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 05:40, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Unless there is some compelling reason, I think that keeping the old ioctl
> interface for a least a year until the kernel changes become more ubiquitous.

I think that iproute2 should first attempt to use netlink and on failure
switch to ioctls.
Maybe Thomas can create such a patch.

cheers,
jamal


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