Re: [PATCH 6/7] batman-adv: Allow to use rntl_link for device creation/deletion

On Saturday 01 December 2012 14:28:02 Antonio Quartulli wrote:

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Because this is the normal way to create virtual network devices (please
feel free to correct me).

Well, I've seen different iface types using many tools, e.g. vconfig,
tunctl, brctl..
Not that this justifies the fact that we should do the same (imho having a
standard and unified way for creating interfaces would be the best option).

The device creation and enslaving using vconfig, tunctl and brctl can be 
replaced using ip.

But, to be honest, I think it should better discuss how to entirely
moving/changing the existent API to a "better one" or to a "new one",
instead of starting to maintain two of them from now on with no plan, don't
you think so?

I leave this discussion to the maintainers of batman-adv. Btw. removing the 
old one without a time of coexistence sounds like a bad move. And therefore 
maintaining of both interfaces like it is done in other network devices seems 
to be necessary.

Kind regards,
	Sven