On Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 11:30:15AM +0100, Toke Høiland-Jørgensen wrote: > > From a BPF application developer PoV I can totally understand the desire > for unified APIs. But that unification can still be achieved at the > libbpf level, while keeping network interface configuration done through > netlink. it cannot be done at libbpf level. The kernel is missing the ownership concept. netlink vs other is irrelevant.