From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: [PATCH] SIW: Module initialization Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 07:02:42 +0900 Message-ID: <20101006070242.3ca5a6d9@s6510> References: <1286261640-5121-1-git-send-email-bmt@zurich.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Bart Van Assche Cc: Bernard Metzler , netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 5 Oct 2010 12:57:21 +0200 Bart Van Assche wrote: > > + * TODO: Dynamic device management (network device registration/removal). > > The current implementation is such that one siw device is created for > each network device found at kernel module load time. That means that > you force the user to load the siw kernel module after all other > kernel modules that register a network device. I'm not sure that's a > good idea. Then device should be controlled by a netlink (rtnl_link_ops) style interface see vlan_netlink.c. Using netlink is extensible and provides a cleaner interface than all these other parameterization methods. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html