Re: [bonding] Add basic support for dynamic configuration of bond interfaces

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>]

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 16:59:10 -0500
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> ioctls are a pain for 32/64-bit emulation layers too.  It seems much 
> easier to define a netlink protocol family of some sort and communicate 
> that way.

Actually that's not true. netlink is far worse for emulation layers when you
break the protocol. e.g. the current ipsec/pf_key protocol is not compatible
on x86-64 and it is near impossible to fix it without major surgery.
With ioctls it would be far easier to fixbecause the infrastructure for 
emulation
is already there.

-Andi