Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:20:46 +0200 (CEST) From: sthaug@nethelp.no To: bzeeb-lists@lists.zabbadoz.net Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, bu7cher@yandex.ru, d@delphij.net, julian@elischer.org Subject: Re: RFC: interface description Message-ID: <20090813.212046.78768090.sthaug@nethelp.no> In-Reply-To: <20090813182918.S93661@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net> References: <4A840DA1.600@yandex.ru> <4A844FF2.9000307@elischer.org> <20090813182918.S93661@maildrop.int.zabbadoz.net>
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> My point has always been - if I have to add/do an ioctl I can always also > use a library call that will read it from a .txt, .xml, .db file > or whatever and I don't have to go to the kernel, handle all the > string length problems there, ... especially as the kernel cannot do > anything with that string. Personally, I couldn't care less if an interface description is stored in the kernel or in a file. I *do* care about being able to set and show the description via ifconfig. Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
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