From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>,
netdev@oss.sgi.com, "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@conectiva.com.br>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netdev_ops
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2003 11:24:35 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3F0C5DE3.7000506@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030709181459.GE15293@gtf.org>
Jeff Garzik wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 10:11:04AM -0700, Ben Greear wrote:
>
>>Also, for the strings (labels) passed back to user space, is there any
>>documentation for suggested values for these strings? Even though we
>>can't be completely type-safe, if there were suggested values in
>>a comment in the code, it could help a great deal for any code trying to
>>parse them for multiple different drivers/nics.
>
>
> The strings represent NIC-specific attributes.
Yes, but surely there is some comonality? I'm not asking for something
set in stone, but just some general guidelines. However, I don't feel
too strongly about this, so if it is not worth the time/effort, then
I'll still be happy :)
Ben
>
> Jeff
>
>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-09 18:24 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-08 16:30 [PATCH] netdev_ops Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-08 20:44 ` Ben Greear
2003-07-08 21:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-08 22:08 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-09 16:15 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-09 17:11 ` Ben Greear
2003-07-09 17:25 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-09 18:14 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-09 18:24 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2003-07-11 19:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-11 19:51 ` Ben Greear
2003-07-11 19:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-11 20:07 ` Ben Greear
2003-07-11 20:04 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-14 5:53 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-07-10 7:47 Feldman, Scott
2003-07-10 7:42 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-10 11:21 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-07-10 13:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-10 8:18 Feldman, Scott
2003-07-10 20:37 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-11 0:53 ` Jeff Garzik
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