> Seriously. How many pieces of userspace-visible functionality have > recently been removed without there being any sort of alternative?
There IS an alternative, you're using it for networking: You *down the interface*. If there's a NIC that doesn't support that let us (or preferably netdev) know and it'll get fixed quickly I'm sure. -- if you want to mail me at work (you don't), use arjan (at) linux.intel.com Test the interaction between Linux and your BIOS via http://www.linuxfirmwarekit.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/