[PATCH] net: Add etun driver

[David Miller]

From: Ben Greear <greearb at candelatech.com>
Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2007 11:14:52 -0700

> Patrick McHardy wrote:
> 
> > It would be nice if someone would finally come up with a generic
> > interface based on netlink (RTM_NEWLINK) instead of adding yet
> > another couple of homegrown interfaces.
> 
> My preference is for ioctls, procfs, or similar that does not
> require extra libraries.  Ethtool is an ioctl based approach,
> so that could potentially be used, though I'm not sure if
> that's the right place to put it...

I totally disagree.

Netlink doesn't require libraries, the libraries just make using it
easier.  It's a simple protocol sent over a socket, if you include
the right headers you can do it all yourself.

We shouldn't fail to use our proper core network configuration
interface just because it's inconvenient for you.