christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:

> I think that it is a lot better to fix the broken code in the tree...

It looks like:

	Many routine uses global variable `ifr' but sa_family in it is
	just initialized at very first.  So, for example setting flags
	overwrite it (since sockaddr and flags are overlaps in struct
	ifreq) and no one reset it.

Not so simple?

enami.