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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] net/core: API to create/destroy /sys/class/net entries
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:12:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080416181200.2b84ef5a@extreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14079.1208394386@death>

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:06:26 -0700
Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> wrote:

> 
> 	Some background: 
> 
> 	Bonding creates a file in sysfs, /sys/class/net/bonding_masters,

That is a problem because it confuses scripts that use /sys/class/net/X
to find a list of network devices. I.e. that was a bad API choice.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-17  1:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-17  1:06 [PATCH RFC] net/core: API to create/destroy /sys/class/net entries Jay Vosburgh
2008-04-17  1:12 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2008-04-18  6:36 ` David Miller

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