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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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  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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