Re: Specifying names for tap interfaces

[Jean-Yves Migeon <jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost>]

On 20.06.2012 14:54, Thor Lancelot Simon wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 10:08:31AM +0100, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>>
>> I think that you are suggesting to do something similar, but your
>> change implies that all users of net interfaces should read the name
>> from the property list instead of reading it from the ifnet struct?
> 
> If that's what is actually being suggested -- ewww.

No.

> At some point we have to stop tarting up the entire guts of the kernel
> with XML.  Sometimes a simple field in a C datastructure is good enough!
> 
> Proplib might be a good hammer, but not every problem is a nail.

And sometimes inventing new tools is not the way to go :)

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Jean-Yves Migeon
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