Johannes Berg wrote: > On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 20:51 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > >>The only sysfs attributes that were always available that I could find >>were module parameters. A little odd because we can specify them on >>the kernel command line, or when loading the module in addition to >>being available at run time. >> >>It gives me a general interface that is usable so long as the module >>is loaded, and does not depend on the availability of any specific >>network device. I will happily use any other interface that gives >>me the same level of functionality for the roughly the same level >>of effort. > > > Just for consideration, in wireless we currently create virtual network > devices by having a "add_iface" and "remove_iface" sysfs files below the > ieee80211 class.
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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
