Subject: Re: [bonding] Add basic support for dynamic configuration of bond interfaces

From: Andi Kleen <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 13:38:16 +0100

On Sun, 11 Jan 2004 16:59:10 -0500
Jeff Garzik <[email-masked]> wrote:

> ioctls are a pain for 32/64-bit emulation layers too.  It seems much 
> easier to define a netlink protocol family of some sort and communicate 
> that way.

Actually that's not true. netlink is far worse for emulation layers when you
break the protocol. e.g. the current ipsec/pf_key protocol is not compatible
on x86-64 and it is near impossible to fix it without major surgery.
With ioctls it would be far easier to fixbecause the infrastructure for emulation
is already there.

-Andi