> Ditto, we have an adsl driver that we setup by overloading various otherwise
> unused options in ifconfig (mem_start, io_addr etc) to do this. Cheaper and
> faster than writing yet another ioctl using device configuration agent, but
> distasteful non the less.
Generic is not always good , thats why we have SIOCDEVPRIVATE. One thing Im
pondering is if we should make the hardware config ioctl take a hardware type
ident with each struct. That would help make all the ethernet agree, all the
wan agree, all the ADSL agree without making a nasty mess.
>
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