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Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On 9 Jun 2002, Kai Henningsen wrote: > > > > However, I don't think that's all that important. What I'd rather see is > > making the network devices into namespace nodes. The situation of eth0 and > > friends, from a Unix perspective, is utterly unnatural. > > But what would you _do_ with them? What would be the advantage as compared > to the current situation? Not much, but ls /dev/net eth0 eth1 eth2 ippp0 would be a convenient way to see what net devices exists. This already works for other devices, when using devfs. I guess this isn't reason enough though. Helge Hafting - 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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