Re: [Bcm43xx-dev] [Fwd: State of the Union: Wireless]

David S. Miller wrote:

From: David Lang <redacted>
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 2006 14:16:17 -0800 (PST)

quoted

character devices are far easier to script. this really sounds like the 
type of configuration stuff that sysfs was designed for. can we avoid yet 
another configuration tool that's required?

netlink is being recommended exactly because it can result
in only needing one tool for everything

Yes, iproute2 rocks!

I recently discovered that it can do "xfrm" stuff and was amazed to
see that the developer(s) had a big clue about what we like to
see (and what is human readable), if we type "ip xfrm state" 
and "ip xfrm policy" as opposed to "setkey -D" and "setkey -PD".

So I can only hope that netlink and iproute will be chosen as a way
to represent it to the user, just because of the clueful developers of
iproute2.


Regards

Ingo Oeser