On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Alan Cox wrote:
> It seems you want to put the handling in userspace with an ioctl to do
> just the low level work. Donald does this with stuff like MII config for
> network cards
I am not sure,
rather that different people want a "Registry", some for persistency, some
for NIC MIB, some for other config data.
It could be very reasonable to have unified approach to it.
like that there are data structures and API in kernel level and different
stubs for taking those data out by ioctl, proc/sys, khttpd.
elmer.
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