Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I still think adding a IFLA_PARTNER or a custom attribute is cleaner >> in this case. Slight semantic mismatches are the worst design bugs >> to correct. > > > Indeed, IFLA_PARTNER sounds like a better idea. I just suggested to > Pavel to create only a single device per newlink operation and binding > them later, what do you think about that?
I don't think it solves much because we still need a way to report the partner device. On the actual using side I think it makes the core of the driver much more difficult to get right. Basically if we can't count on having a partner device we have to add NULL pointer checks and locking to the packet dispatch which is otherwise unnecessary. Eric - 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
