Re: [PATCH] hashed device lookup (Does NOT meet Linus' sumission policy!)

[Andi Kleen]

On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 04:01:04AM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>    Date:   Mon, 8 Jan 2001 01:13:08 +1300
>    From: Chris Wedgwood <[e-mail]>
> 
>    OK, I'm a liar -- bind does handle this. Cool.
> 
> Standard BSD allows it, what do you expect :-)
> 
>    This is good news, because it means there is a precedent for multiple
>    addresses on a single interface so we can kill the <ifname>:<n>
>    syntax in favor of the above which is cleaner of more accurately
>    represents what is happening.
> 
> If this is really true, 2.5.x is an appropriate time to make
> this, no sooner.

I think it would be better to keep it. The ifa based alias interface 
emulation adds minor overhead (currently it's only a few lines of code,
assuming we need named if addresses for other reasons too, which we do) 
and removing it it would break a lot of configuration scripts etc., for 
no really good gain. 

-Andi