From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Warren Turkal <wt@penguintechs.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: dummy ethernet devices and sysfs
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 12:16:09 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160113121609.139af5a2@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB_jBhhyNLeYSuOQUXPTtU3LaVdjXtD=jS0kuvMckDjyOz1Xzg@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 11:58:01 -0800
Warren Turkal <wt@penguintechs.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was looking through sysfs today, and something interesting jumped
> out at me after I loaded the dummy module.
>
> This directory exists: /sys/class/net/wlp2s0/device/
>
> This directory does not: /sys/class/net/dummy0/device/
>
> I can find the module that is providing the wlp2s0 device with the following:
> $ ls /sys/class/net/wlp2s0/device/driver/module/drivers/
> pci:iwlwifi
>
> Shouldn't dummy have something similar so that one can figure out
> which module is providing the dummy0 device?
>
> FWIW, I am running the latest Ubuntu 15.10 kernel (4.2.0-23-generic).
>
> Thanks,
> wt
If you look carefully at the /sys/class/net/wlp2s0/device/ you will
see it is a symlink to the underlying /sys directory for the hardware (PCI)
device. Since dummy (and other virtual interfaces) have no hardware,
there is no symlink.
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2016-01-13 19:58 dummy ethernet devices and sysfs Warren Turkal
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