Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 9 Jun 2002 19:22:24 +0100 | From | "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <> | Subject | Re: of ethernet names (was [PATCH] Futex Asynchronous |
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* Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com) 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?
Personally I would do away with ifconfig and replace it with cat in and out of device nodes; ifconfig seems to suffer about having to know about every protocol on every device type and the kernel has to provide interfaces for it that only it uses.
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