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From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
        Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>,
        James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>,
        Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>,
        Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
        Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>,
        Alexey Gladkov <gladkov.alexey@gmail.com>
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Subject: [RFD] Network configuration data in sysfs
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Hi,
 
Currently there's no way to set or inspect network configuration (protocol
addresses, routes, etc.) through sysfs. Yes, we have netlink interface for
this, but sysfs has advantage:
 
- change or inspect network configuration using standard unix utilities 
  (echo, cat, etc.). It's useful at least in restricted environment where 
  no special utilities available -- initrd or stripped down busybox.
  
- transparent udev support. It would be nice to get this information to 
  udev.

Is there something fundamental preventing us to have sysfs interface for 
network configuration?
 
-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov