Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 6 Jan 2001 21:43:16 -0800 | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2001 23:00:10 -0500 (EST) From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
I think someone should just flush ifconfig down some toilet. a wrapper around "ip" to to give the same look and feel as ifconfig would be a good thing so that some stupid program that depends on ifconfig look and feel would be a good start.
I could not agree more. This reminds me to do something I could not justify before, making netlink be enabled in the kernel and non-configurable.
I could almost, but not quite, justify it right now just because "ip" is becomming standard and needs it.
Not to stray from the subject, Ben's effort is still needed. I think real numbers are useful instead of claims like it "displayed faster"
See my previous email, if it's just slow because of some poorly coded version of ifconfig, it does not justify the patch. If only a forcefully created "benchmark" can show some performance problem, that is not an acceptable reason to champion this patch. Ok?
Later, David S. Miller davem@redhat.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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