From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, kay.sievers@vrfy.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru, jmorris@namei.org,
yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, kaber@trash.net, gregkh@suse.de,
gladkov.alexey@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RFD] Network configuration data in sysfs
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 04:34:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111024013406.GA24158@shutemov.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111023.204943.1509703901636083438.davem@davemloft.net>
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 08:49:43PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 02:35:58 +0300
>
> > Is there something fundamental preventing us to have sysfs interface for
> > network configuration?
>
> Netlink already provides everything sysfs would potentially provide as
> well as event tracking.
Not everything. You still need special utilities to view/change the
configuration.
> udev could just listen to a netlink socket and notice all changes to
> addresses, routes, and device states.
Yes, potentially. I'm not sure if it fits well to udev design.
Kay, any comments?
--
Kirill A. Shutemov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-24 1:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-23 23:35 [RFD] Network configuration data in sysfs Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-10-24 0:49 ` David Miller
2011-10-24 1:34 ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2011-10-24 3:24 ` David Miller
2011-10-24 4:24 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2011-10-24 4:59 ` David Miller
2011-10-24 12:46 ` Kay Sievers
2011-10-24 23:54 ` Alexey Gladkov
2011-10-25 7:57 ` Kay Sievers
2011-10-24 20:17 ` Stephen Hemminger
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