On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 12:46:28AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > It adds undiscussed networking changed which I very much doubt DaveM
> > would approve of, and I do not approve of: SIOCDEVICE is far too
> > generic for inclusion, and it adds a structure for passing untyped
> > data which is very definitely non-portable.
>
> You need a very generic structure for WAN interfaces because they have
> ridiculously large numbers of configurable options. These changes were
> discussed over a year ago.
>
> I agree with the comment about untyped data. That does want to be cleaned
> up a chunk more.
Ok... SIOC[GS]WANDEVICE or somesuch?
It could be made more portable and still say generic, IMHO.
Jeff
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