On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 11:52 +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Without having thought much about it yet, roughly like this: > > - driver receives RTM_NEWLINK message (under rtnl) > - driver allocates new device > - driver initializes device based on content of RTM_NEWLINK message > - driver returns
Sounds good to me, but where's the advantage over something that isn't generic if RTM_NEWLINK contains totally different things depending on the subsystem like wireless where it'd have to contain the hardware identifier? johannes
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