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Re: RFC: PPP over X

To: hadi@xxxxxxxxxx (jamal)
Subject: Re: RFC: PPP over X
From: Werner Almesberger <almesber@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 3 Feb 2000 23:42:46 +0100 (MET)
Cc: mitch@xxxxxxxxxx (Mitchell Blank Jr), mostrows@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Michal Ostrowski), netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx, axboe@xxxxxxx, markster@xxxxxxxxx (Mark Spencer), ak@xxxxxxx (Andi Kleen), marc@xxxxxxx (Marc Boucher), paulus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, bcrl@xxxxxxxxxx (Ben LaHaise)
In-reply-to: <Pine.GSO.4.20.0002031601450.25544-100000@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> from "jamal" at Feb 03, 2000 04:07:58 PM
Sender: owner-netdev@xxxxxxxxxxx
jamal wrote:
> (eg look at the netlink interface; it is a char device and yet it
> is used in networking abstraction)

Minor correction, assuming you means what you get with CONFIG_NETLINK_DEV:
the "right" way to use netlink is as a protocol family, not as a device.

- Werner

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