Re: [PATCH] net: Add etun driver

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On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 11:52 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:

> Without having thought much about it yet, roughly like this:
> 
> - driver receives RTM_NEWLINK message (under rtnl)
> - driver allocates new device
> - driver initializes device based on content of RTM_NEWLINK message
> - driver returns

Sounds good to me, but where's the advantage over something that isn't
generic if RTM_NEWLINK contains totally different things depending on
the subsystem like wireless where it'd have to contain the hardware
identifier?

johannes

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