Roland Dreier wrote:
> > There is nothing stopping adding a well designed alternate interface.
> > Either netlink or ioctl's are okay. As long as it is 32/64 bit clean.
> From a quick look it seems it should use rtnl_link instead
> of adding yet another private sysfs interface.
This seems crazy -- why do we want to push things towards the complexity
of rtnl_link instead of a simple text-based interface that can be
trivial used with 'echo' from the shell?
Its not complicated at all. Ability to use "echo" seems like a
pretty poor argument to me.
What advantages does that give?
- atomic configuration changes
- atomic configuration dumps
- configuration change notifications
- same interface as for all other network-related configurations
- easily extensible
- not yet another private driver interface
- not text based, which makes it a lot more convenient for using in programs
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