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From: Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
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On Sat, Jan 14, 2006 at 11:53:45PM +0000, Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Brooks Davis wrote:
> >
> >Are there any objections to this change?  I plan to use it to add the
> >requested feature of interface descriptions.  Here is a diff of possible
> >changes to if.h.
>=20
> I still think that interface descriptions do not belong to kernel
> space.

What does this have to do with my proposal?  I'm simply proposing a
minor extenstion so the ioctl API to make it suck slightly less.

-- Brooks

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