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Re: [patch] modular ifconfig

Subject: Re: [patch] modular ifconfig
From: Daniel Carosone <dan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 03:53:25 UTC
Newsgroups: fa.netbsd.tech.net
On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 03:22:28AM +0000, George Michaelson wrote:
> On Tue, 01 Jul 2008 12:58:17 +0200, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Darren Reed wrote:
> >> I don't think there are any other networking commands that come to mind
> >> as benefitting from this style of backend?
> > 
> > route(8)?
> 
> wlanctl?

Nice suggestions, but if a whole-sale refactoring of these tools is in
order, heading towards proplib rather than loads-of-ioctl's and
special-code-to-call-them would probably be better.  That still leaves
the question of "syntax modules", but that more restricted space could
be handled with some grammar specifier rule files, or maybe/mostly by
direct inspection of the proplib interface offered by the kernel.

just since we're passing around idle design mandates.. :-)

--
Dan.
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