On Tue, 15 May 2001, David Brownell wrote: > I suppose that for network interface names, some convention for > interface ioctls would suffice to solve that "identify" step. PCI > devices would return the slot_name, USB devices need something > like a patch I posted to linux-usb-devel a few months back. This is crap. For user tools (_especially_ for admin scripts) ioctls are damn inconvenient. I don't have Perl or Python on the root fs. And I don't need yet another binary lurking in /sbin, thank you very much. If you want to do it - do it right. Accessing /dev/eth/<n>/MAC is trivial. Wanking with ioctls is not. And populating such tree is as simple as it gets. - 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/
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- Re: LANANA: To Pending Device Number Registrants David Brownell
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